🤖 KIDS AGAINST THE MACHINE Children and teenagers are up against the same struggles as adults but their coping mechanisms bring in playfulness as much as roughness. Explore the programme in our film guide : 2022.encounters.film/films

Stoked to be briefly featured in the Encounters Film Festival trailer this year, and super blessed to be included in some incredible programmes of short films :)

#FNC2022 : COURTS MÉTRAGES - COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE - PROGRAMME 3 DATSUN (Mark Albiston) I AM GOOD AT KARATE (Jess Dadds) AIRHOSTESS-737 (Thanasis Neofotistos) CHERRIES (Vytautas Katkus) EVERYTHING AT ONCE (Henrik Dyb Zwart) BIG BANG (Carlos Segundo)

Really pleased to say that our film has been selected to play in competition Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (FNC) Huge thanks for the selection and to everyone involved who made this possible! BFI NETWORK BFI NETWORK South East @ThomWightman Jason Williamson @jiggybhore #FNC2022 #FNC51

🎥 I AM GOOD AT KARATE 👤 Written & Directed by JESS DADDS 👤 Produced by NINA SOMERS 📅 Screening Online from Sept 27 and in-person Watershed on Sept 28 as part of Kids Against The Machine 2022.encounters.film/films/62f4d907… Supported by BFI NETWORK South East

Kids Against the Machine Q&A by Jonathan Bygraves with Jess Dadds Encounters Film Festival #VotesAt16

Really happy about this review/reflection from the Encounters Film Festival catalogue, thank you Laurence Boyce :)

CINECITY OPEN SHORTS comes to Dukes at Komedia this year. Locally-made short films selected from open submissions. SUN 13 NOV - 2:30PM - bit.ly/3DE5smq

Huge thank you to @talking_shorts and Laurence Boyce for this amazing review! :) BFI NETWORK @ThomWightman Jason Williamson @jiggybhore BFI NETWORK South East

Thank you @talking_shorts & Laurence Boyce for including "I am good at karate" in your Top 3 short films of 2022 list. Very grateful and honoured to be included! BFI NETWORK South East BFI NETWORK @ThomWightman @jiggybhore Jason Williamson talkingshorts.com/focus/top-3-of…

Excited to share a project that has been in the offing for a while, plus the amazing talent I've had the privilege of supporting through BFI: Jess Dadds @captidmas Ryushi Lindsay EMILY EVERDEE Elias Suhail Katie Sinclair @lauratunbridge Chloe Culpin Nia Alavezos & many more!

Thankyou @talking_shorts for inviting me to share 3 of my favourite short films of 2022 - some amazing films and filmmakers in the article! Honoured to be a part of it :)

Thanks for having us! :)

So proud to be included among such incredible filmmakers! Thanks BFI NETWORK South East and Jess Dadds for the awesome zine!

Today is World Mental Health Day, which is supposed to be about raising awareness, but that will only get us so far. As well as being a personal issue, mental health is also a political one. I wanted to share a poster we made for my short film which confronts this. #WMHD BFI

Recently made this for Apollo Ray - really fun project - thanks to godisinthetv zine for the review and feature :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=hC4QJv…

Big news for me - I am now formally represented at Casarotto Ramsay as a Writer / Director. Feels very special to be signed to the same agency as people like Terry Gilliam! Watching films like Brazil late night on Film4 was what made me want to get involved in filmmaking :)