Jessica Harrop is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion for science through film. She heads development and production for Sandbox Films, an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning production company specializing in creative and boundary-breaking documentaries rooted in scientific ideas that inform society and culture. Harrop is a hands-on executive producer. Her credits include “Fire of Love” (nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film), “All Light, Everywhere” (Sundance 2021 special jury prize winner released by Neon and Hulu), “Fireball” (co-directed by Werner Herzog and released by Apple TV+) and “Fathom” (winner of the Emmy Award for Best Sound in a Documentary). Before Sandbox Films, Jessica produced content for a variety of outlets, including Netflix, Showtime, Discovery, National Geographic and PBS. Her credits include the Netflix documentary series “Follow This,” James Cameron’s Emmy Award-winning series “Years of Living Dangerously,” “Bill Nye Saves the World” and “First in Human.” She holds a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology and a certificate in theater from Princeton University, where she co-teaches an undergraduate film course on communicating climate change.