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Jessica Lind studied screenplay and dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy and Media Technology at the FH St. Pölten. As a writer she is working on screenplays and novels. Her first feature film RUBIKON, co-authored by director Leni Lauritsch, premiered in 2022. RUBIKON is a Science Fiction Film set at a space station, featuring an international cast. Lind's first novel MAMA was published in 2021. The novel was awarded as the best german-speaking debut of 2021.
As a dramaturg she accompanied Jessica Hausner’s screenplay work of the uncanny Science-Fiction-Drama LITTLE JOE, that premiered in 2019 in Cannes. Jessica is a board member of the Drehbuchverband Austria. She won several prices and scholarships such as Carl-Mayer-Drehbuchpreis 2019, 21st Klagenfurter Literaturkurs 2017 and 23rd Open Mike 2015.
In 2024 her second novel KLEINE MONSTER was published. In 2025 she won the First Steps award for her Screenplay DER TAG AN DEM DER REGEN KAM.
Jessica lives in Vienna.
As a dramaturg she accompanied Jessica Hausner’s screenplay work of the uncanny Science-Fiction-Drama LITTLE JOE, that premiered in 2019 in Cannes. Jessica is a board member of the Drehbuchverband Austria. She won several prices and scholarships such as Carl-Mayer-Drehbuchpreis 2019, 21st Klagenfurter Literaturkurs 2017 and 23rd Open Mike 2015.
In 2024 her second novel KLEINE MONSTER was published. In 2025 she won the First Steps award for her Screenplay DER TAG AN DEM DER REGEN KAM.
Jessica lives in Vienna.