Jessica Harrop

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Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about science through film. She is the executive director of Sandbox Films, where she oversees all project decisions and company strategy and acts as an executive producer for Sandbox Films documentaries — including the Oscar-nominated film Fire of Love, the Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning All Light, Everywhere, the Emmy-winning Fathom, and Werner Herzog’s Fireball. Harrop has produced content for a variety of outlets, including Netflix, Showtime, Discovery, National Geographic and PBS. She holds a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology and a certificate in theater from Princeton University, where she also co-taught an undergraduate film course on communicating climate change.

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