Jess X. Snow is a filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, and author. Born in Canada, of JiangXi Chinese heritage, through a wide range of mediums and genres and a dream-like lens, their work explores intergenerational healing, migration, surrealism, multispecies justice, and abolitionist futures.

After completing their MFA in screenwriting and directing from the Graduate Film Program at NYU, they were named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Their lyrical short films merge bold visuals and character-driven narratives to explore how flawed Asian queers find sanctuary and become free. They screened at over 40+ festivals in five continents; including BlackStar, New Orleans, Ann Arbor, Outfest, Frameline and Durban International Film Festival (Special Mention). Their latest short, ROOTS THAT REACH TOWARD THE SKY (2024) premiered at the 68th BFI London Film Festival. They are in late development for WHEN THE RIVER SPLIT OPEN, their debut fiction feature; a surreal road movie supported by Cine Qua Non Script Revision Lab, Science New Wave, and the Film Independent Producing Lab.

Their forthcoming books include the migrant fantasy children’s book: WE ALWAYS HAD WINGS (Make Me A World/Random House 2025), a full-length poetry collection and a genre-bending memoir: TO BE UNAFRAID OF DYING: An Artists' Search for Chosen Family and the Movement Within. A member of the Justseeds Artist Co-operative, they have been creating posters and community murals for social movements since 2015.

Their projects have been awarded grants and fellowships from the Sloan Foundation for Science in Film, the Tribeca Film Institute, Caldera, BAFTA, Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada. Previously, they were the artist in residence at the NYU Asian Pacific American Institute and the Asian American Studies department at UC Santa Barbara where they taught workshops in screenwriting and community arts practice.