Jessica Schilling

Jessica Schilling is an Emmy-nominated film and television editor who joined the editing faculty at FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts in 2023. She brings a strong sense of storytelling, motivated editing, and creative problem-solving to her own work, and those values form the basis of her teaching philosophy. At FSU, Jessica teaches Editing for scripted films, documentaries, and animation, and loves working with students through the post-production process of their films.

Before she began teaching, Jessica lived for many years in Los Angeles where she worked as an assistant editor and then editor in independent features, documentaries, and unscripted tv. Some of Jessica’s editing credits include the new series Surviving Alaska: Women of the Wild, the Emmy-nominated Hulu series Searching for Soul Food, the critically-acclaimed Black History, Black Freedom & Black Love for MasterClass and Amazon, Netflix’s music competition series Rhythm + Flow, the documentary series Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics, which was nominated for an Emmy and Critics Choice Award, and the documentary short films Dream American and Witness for the Execution. Jessica’s feature documentary credits include being one of the editors of M for Magic, story producing and additional editing on the music documentary The Chainsmokers: Memories, editing Taylor Feltner’s documentary Man Shot Dead, and work as associate editor for R.J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue.

Jessica received her M.F.A. in Film Production from FSU and her B.A. in Literature from New College of Florida, where she published her senior thesis Adaptation as Interpretation about film adaptations of novels. Jessica is a member of the International Documentary Association, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and a special member of American Cinema Editors.