After nearly a decade of success as a Script Supervisor in film and network television, along with years of study at UCLA working toward her Certificate in Directing from UCLA Extension, Jennifer recently began her career as a film and television director. In addition to working with the Director's Film Lab at the Sundance Institute, she's had the opportunity to work with and learn from many well-known and accomplished leaders in the entertainment industry - writers, directors, producers, actors, editors. Jennifer's debut film "Pumpkin Man", is a charming and meaningful coming-of-age story. Through the mystery and magic of Halloween, a young man discovers that his world is not going to come to an end simply because his parents are going through a divorce. "Pumpkin Man", starring Denise Crosby, Phil Abbott and Milton Creagh has won numerous awards and certificates of honor including the prestigious Dove Award for excellence in family programming and the Film Advisory Board Award for excellence in family programming.
Her most recent feature length film "Naturally Native" had its World Premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and is being screened on a worldwide film festival circuit. This film has won awards worldwide including the Dreamspeakers Festival in Alberta Canada, Worldfest Flagstaff International Film Festival, the Top Applause Award at the 1999 Santa Clarita International Film Festival as well as the 23rd Annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco where Jennifer was nominated for Best Director. "Naturally Native" follows the lives of three present day Native American sisters each with her own identity issues and her own very different careerjourneys , as they come together to start a Native cosmetic business, and find themselves facing their pasts, each other and the business world on the path to success.
Jennifer made her theatrical directorial debut in theater with the play reading of "Yearnings" for the Playwrites In Exile series. "Yearnings", a tender Asian-American love story, later went on to have a successful run at the East West Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Jennifer often speaks as a guest lecturer to film schools and student organizations. Her enthusiastically received talks offer a humorous and insightful perspective to all aspects of filmmaking titled "Secrets to Surviving Success in Hollywood." She is represented by Frank Balkin at the Irv Schecter Agency in Los Angeles.
