Jessica Dimmock (Director)

Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story

1972: 7-year-old Steven Stayner vanishes from Merced, California. For years, his family searches for him, only to find they’ve been looking for the wrong boy. 50 years on, Steven’s children unearth clues to their father’s mysterious past.

Release Date2022-04-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count26

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

An overgrown field and a stretch of highway connect a series of grisly murders spanning several decades as grieving families search for answers.

Release Date2022-11-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count77

Thoughts & Prayers

In a dystopic America, children are taught how to prepare for school shootings through elaborate drills. Yet what are intended as self-defense mechanisms are themselves deeply traumatic for students, parents, educators, and entire communities.

Release Date2025-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Without

On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.

Release Date2011-11-07

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count18

Home

Discover the groundbreaking ideas and inspiring stories behind the world’s most imaginative dwellings. In this globe-spanning docuseries, meet the visionaries who are challenging conventional concepts of “home” and rethinking how we live.

Release Date2020-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count15

Flint Town

Over a two-year period, filmmakers embedded with cops in Flint, Michigan, reveal a department grappling with volatile issues in untenable conditions.

Release Date2018-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count38

The Convention

A short film exploring the annual Esprit gathering, where transgender women in their senior years who have been closeted their whole lives gather for a week of shared experience and understanding in a logging town in Northern Washington.

Release Date2017-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Newtok

As the effects of climate change become ever more apparent throughout the world, the Yup’ik people and their lands on the western outskirts of Alaska face a much more imminent threat. In the town of Newtok, years of rising temperatures have eroded the frozen foundation of the area. With their homes and way of life hanging in the balance, the town’s residents weigh the prospect of relocating the community or abandoning their traditional lands forever.

Release Date2021-11-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Pearl

"The Pearl" explores the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman against the backdrop of post-industrial logging towns in the Pacific Northwest. The film leans into the struggle of those who were reared and successful as men and have reached middle age or later with a burdensome secret that they can no longer keep.

Release Date2016-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5