Jessica Landry is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated screenwriter, director, and producer. Her projects have been developed through the Toronto International Film Festival, Women in the Director’s Chair, Canada’s National Screen Institute, the Canadian Film Centre, and Whistler Film Festival. Jessica has several projects in various stages, including Ghost Lands, an Indigenous-led paranormal documentary; The Night Belongs to Us, a feature adaptation of her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novella; and Anatomy of a Séance, a horror series. She has written several television movies, including the Critics’ Choice Award-nominated film List of a Lifetime. Jessica also co-wrote the Rockie Award-nominated feature documentary True Story, as well as wrote, directed, and produced four of her own award-winning short films. She also released her debut collection of short stories, The Night Belongs to Us, in 2023; co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-, British Fantasy Award-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology There Is No Death, Ther Are No Dead; and had an original story in Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey.

The Rotting Girls — Cleveland, 1980. Once-thriving factories have closed, leaving a graveyard of rust and decay in its wake. For 18-year-old Phoebe Shaw, life already feels like a slow collapse counting down the days before she graduates and leaves the city behind… That is, until the girls on her street begin to change into something born of the rotting city itself. As her best friend becomes afflicted with this strange transformation, Phoebe realizes the horror isn’t just around her, it’s inside her — and she may be the key to stopping it.