Jennifer Dunn

Jennifer Dunn is a television writer and filmmaker who explores class, family legacy, and the cost of inherited power in rural America. Born between a cemetery and a trailer park in North Georgia, she brings authentic perspectives on Appalachian communities and the forces that shape them.

Her first one-hour drama pilot, BIRDSONG, won the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival Pilot Competition and the 2021 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition in Drama. The pilot placed as a finalist in Screencraft, Cinestory, and WeScreenplay competitions. BIRDSONG follows a young Appalachian witch who must defy her family's scam faith healing ministry and embrace her bloodline's demanding destiny after years of using Oxy to reject her disruptive supernatural powers.

Jennifer's work examines how institutions—whether family clans, religious organizations, or corporate entities—control individual lives. Her characters navigate impossible choices between loyalty and freedom, protection and truth, survival and authenticity. She's drawn to stories about people trapped between worlds: the powerful gifts they inherit and the systems that exploit them.

Jennifer participated in the CineStory TV Writing Fellowship in 2020, the New York Women in Film Writer's Lab in 2021, and the Sundance Episodic Intensive in 2022.

Jennifer's influences include Sally Wainwright, Dorothy Allison, Daniel Woodrell, and stories that honor the complexity of rural communities.

Honors & Awards

Winner, Atlanta Film Festival Best Drama Pilot - BIRDSONG - 2020

Fellow, The Writer's Lab, BIRDSONG - 2021

Fellow, Sundance Episodic Intensive, DOUBLE FAULT - 2022