Jessica Hopper

Jessica Hopper is a director, producer and author based in Chicago. In a career spanning more than twenty years, Hopper earned acclaim as a provocative, fearless music journalist before moving on to directing and producing documentary work. Most recently, Hopper directed and executive produced the upcoming four-part docuseries Women Who Rock, releasing summer of 2022 on Epix and Sky. She is also executive producing a feature documentary, based on her history of Lilith Fair, with White Horse Pictures, which will be released in 2023.

Works

FX: The Series

Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?

Release Date1996-09-09

Charactersd Detective Tracy Allen

Episode Count4

Vote Count18

Running Red

Upset over his brother’s murder, Soviet special agent Gregori Wallace leaves Russia to start a new life in the United States. Now happily married to a beautiful woman and the father of a little girl, Gregori soon realizes that he can’t outrun the past.

Release Date1999-03-30

Charactersd Newswoman

Vote Count9

Hard Drive

Sexual encounters and criminal mayhem occur when two people meet via their computers.

Release Date1994-01-02

Charactersd Tea Lady

Vote Count4

Error in Judgment

Eric's art gallery is losing money, and even though his psychiatrist wife wants to help, she can't do much to cheer him up. When a young, sexy woman named Toni accepts a sales position at the gallery, she instantly brings it back to life, jump-starting Eric's troubled marriage in the process. But the marital problems soon come back, prompting accusations that Eric is having an affair with Toni.

Release Date1999-05-08

Charactersd Rita

Vote Count3

Women Who Rock

A four-part docuseries that pays homage to the legion of women pioneers in music who have stormed the stage, wielded their instruments, and sung the soundtrack of our lives. Celebrating women artists, in their own words, on power, fame, truth, defiance, artistic expression, hard-won success, and most importantly, the insights and tales behind their anthemic music.

Release Date2022-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery

Behind the scenes of Sarah McLachlan’s legendary all-women music festival and features interviews with performers including Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu, Olivia Rodrigo, and Emmylou Harris.

Release Date2025-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count10

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza

Explore the iconic festival, Lollapalooza, which started as a traveling circus of bands including Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band and Violent Femmes in 1991.

Release Date2024-05-21

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker

In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits, the three members, Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnect in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their albums, reminisce and even perform together one last time. Follow the band as they retell their "rags to riches to rags" story writhe with inner band turmoil, health issues, and the aftermath of signing to a major label. Featuring interviews with Billy Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more.

Release Date2017-08-11

Vote Count5