Award-winning filmmaker Jenna Payne is building up momentum for an indie film coup with a line of projects as diverse as they are similar. Fun films-to-be build on healthy doses of camp, vamp, and current events to create alternate universes that are surprisingly familiar. Hailing from southern suburbia, Jenna saved up her summer lemonade stand money to move to New York City in the fall of 2003. Jenna waited tables, typed up prose, and spun records in some of the city’s darker dens before realizing that she knew no one in publishing and had seen more films than eaten hot meals!

Quickly diving into writing, directing, and producing, Jenna shot her first short film Feline Frenzy in February 2010. This dark comedy/grindhouse thriller  toured film festivals and won a Skullie Award at the 2010 Royal Flush Festival. Jenna also shot a sizzle reel in New York for Grauman’s Last Hero, a comedy/noir thriller about the character impersonators in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre, to demonstrate the potential of this feature.

Jenna has worked on many film sets in roles ranging from Wardrobe to Producer and is developing a slasher set against the backdrop of the collapse of the American auto industry. Jenna recently wrapped as producer on the lush and visual film The Art of Dreaming about a young woman’s battle against her subconscious. Jenna Payne is now developing an Ed Wood-style exploitation webseries for branded content called Zompire Vixens from Pluto! Foxy zombie/vampire hybrids attack Brooklyn in retaliation for the declassification of Pluto, which renders them ineligible for intergalactic aid.

CONTACT: Jenna Payne | jenna_payne [at] ymail.com