Jessie Hughes
Australian new media artist and screenwriter, later Endemol Shine Australia's innovation lead, who conceived and wrote the AI animated short Le Drip.
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Biography
Jessie Hughes is an Australian new media artist, technologist and screenwriter whose work has been shown at Sundance, SXSW, Cannes and Tate Modern. As a creative technologist working across design, technology, art and research for social innovation, she has designed solutions for Oculus, Facebook and Adobe, presented at SXSW in 2022 and been a digital resident at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art.
She received a 2020 Sir John Monash Scholarship for a master's in screenwriting and was named one of Australia's emerging screenwriters of 2021. Her adult-animated comedy series Head Above Water was mentored through Ron Howard's Impact Australia accelerator, has had support from Screen Queensland and Arts Queensland, and has Brisbane studio Hoodlum Entertainment attached as production partner.
In 2025 she was Senior Creative Technologist at Leonardo.Ai, Canva's generative image and video platform, where she led its Top 50 Women AI Filmmakers list. In July 2026 Endemol Shine Australia appointed her senior vice president of innovation, to set up and lead its new ESA Innovation Lab for emerging technology and content formats.
She came up with the original concept for the AI short Le Drip during the pandemic and is credited as its screenwriter. Alex Naghavi and Ezra Li directed it, and it placed second at the Reply AI Film Festival 2026.