Jessica Cobham-Dineen

Development Executive

Pronouns: She/Her 

Jessica returns to the Development Executive role after just over a year covering the Manager of Development & Production. Jessica works across the English language features in development from both emerging and established talent, alongside executive producing ACW and BFI NETWORK funded short films.  
 
Jessica joined the team from ie ie productions, where she was Development Executive. Prior to that she was Head of Development at Maia Pictures, overseeing the company’s slate and driving talent relationships, creating an intersectional group of stories and voices. She has also worked on 4Screenwriting, 4Stories, been a judge for BFI Film Academy and Chapter’s Micro-Shorts Grants, a jury member for BAFTA Cymru, on the panel for BAFTA Rocliffe (New Writing Film Competition), and a mentor for The Writers Lab UK & Ireland.  
 
Jessica started her career at Film4, later returning to Channel 4 as part of the Drama commissioning team. Jessica has worked on both television and film productions. She was production manager and script supervisor for (Part 3) of debbie tucker green’s play, ear for eye. The feature adaptation premiered at London Film Festival, and on BBC, in 2021.  
 
Jessica produced short film, Bog. Nominated for the Golden Heart Trellick Award (2018 Portobello Film Festival), it played internationally, including 2019 Worldwide Women’s Film Festival in the US