Jessica Woodworth is an American-Belgian director, screenwriter and producer known for the award-winning fiction features "Khadak", "Altiplano" and "The Fifth Season", made in collaboration with Peter Brosens. "King of the Belgians", her fourth feature, recently premiered in Venice. She received degrees in literature from Princeton University and documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. She was a stringer and line producer of documentaries in Paris, Hong Kong and Beijing in the nineties. In 2000 she shot the documentary "The Virgin Diaries" in Morocco. Her films have been in over two hundred festivals and won dozens of awards.