Jessica Rodriguez is a filmmaker and screenwriter born in Havana, Cuba in 1986. After graduating at Audio Visual Media Arts Faculty (FAMCA) of Cuban Arts University (ISA), she moved to Madrid as she got a MAEC-AECID Grant to do the Carlos III University Film and TV Screenwriting Master Degree. She has worked as assistant in TV series. She is developing cinematographic projects through her production company, CloroProd.
Her documentary El Mundo de Raul has won film festival awards in Latin America and Europe including a Version Espanola Award. She is currently living in Madrid, Spain. She developed her first feature film documentary for filming in Egypt.
At MacDowell, Rodriguez began her first novel Hambre (Hungry). She also finished the final draft of Espejuelos Oscuros (Dark Glasses), her first feature fiction film.
