DIRECTORS

Jenny Waldo combines her experience as a documentarian and a scripted narrative filmmaker to produce content that speaks to the human experience. A producer, writer, director, film educator, and accomplished crowdfunder, credits include her recent feature film directorial debut Acid Test, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival and nominated for the Texas Independent Film Award by the Houston Film Critics Society. The feature film was adapted from her award-winning, festival favorite short of the same name. Past credits include associate-producing the indie feature The Preacher’s Daughter which sold to Lifetime, and the Starz feature documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing among various shorts, an educational series, and several music videos. A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in Film Production, Jenny's rom-com script Honeymoon Adventurers was a Finalist at the Broad Humor Festival and Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival and she recently received a grant from the City of Houston to direct a short suspense film, Twofer. Jenny is in development on her next feature, Martha’s Mustang, a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist which garnered a development grant from the City of Houston, and was selected for several development labs including the Stowe Story Narrative Lab.