Jen West is a creative producer, filmmaker, and visual storyteller who develops narrative experiences across film, cultural institutions, live entertainment, and public-facing media. Her work focuses on translating complex ideas into emotionally engaging stories, presentations, and audience experiences that connect people to place, purpose, and one another.
She collaborates closely with institutional partners, entertainment companies, subject matter experts, and creative teams to develop narrative-driven projects that balance clarity, visual impact, and emotional resonance.
"Jen is one that I am especially proud to champion as a director and visual artist. She approaches storytelling with great artistry, drawing from the principles of both painting and literature. Her characters and settings are deeply moving and compelling and her story world is intoxicating and vivid.”
— Deborah Riley Draper (on ELECTRIC BLEAU); Writer, Director & Producer
Jen West is a creative producer, filmmaker, designer, and narrative storyteller whose work bridges film, live experiences, cultural institutions, and audience engagement. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama and now based in Los Angeles, she specializes in translating complex ideas into compelling visual narratives, presentations, films, and public-facing experiences.
Drawing on a background in graphic design and more than two decades of creative leadership, Jen develops projects for filmmakers, museums, tourism organizations, nonprofits, and entertainment companies. Her recent work includes feature film production, narrative development, audience-engagement initiatives, and confidential concept-development and presentation design projects for large-scale entertainment and live-experience ventures.
Her work includes award-winning short films, a documentary that premiered at the American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival, and the feature film A Fresh Hell, produced in collaboration with writer-director Brandon Harris. She serves on the board of the Cucalorus Film Festival and regularly mentors filmmakers, teaches storytelling workshops, and develops educational programming focused on creative development and audience connection.
Whether producing a film, shaping a story world, or building a presentation that brings an ambitious idea to life, Jen is driven by curiosity, empathy, and a belief in the power of story to connect people. Outside of her professional work, she occasionally explores storytelling through live performance, including appearances with Mortified.
“Jen West is amazing and magical. She has big ideas that need big support and no one, particularly in the South, is telling the magnificent fantastical stories like she is. Little girls and the little girls in all of us need to play and she builds those playgrounds. I believe Jen will make the next Beasts of the Southern Wild and anyone would be LUCKY to work with her on the front end of her career.”
— Virginia Newcomb, Actress