Enfants Bizarres
WEIRD KIDS
‘Enfants Bizarres’ is a production company founded by writer-director JESSIE BARR
Committed to the raw energy and revolutionary ethos of punk filmmaking that’s humanistic, sensual, and darkly funny ‘Enfants Bizarres’ centers on characters in moments of rupture where desire, shame, and love collide.
Jessie Barr is a writer/director based in L.A. with roots in theater, independent film + comedy.
A multi-hyphenate filmmaker and commercial director born in Washington D.C. she danced with The Washington Ballet before cutting her teeth as an actor in NYC’s Off-Broadway scene.
Jessie’s currently developing a Shakespeare adaptation with Academy Award-winning prod co. Caviar (War Pony, Sound of Metal). Her latest short film, Sylvia, starring Jena Malone (Love Lies Bleeding, Neon Demon, The Hunger Games), with support from Isabella Rossellini’s Mama Farm, is being submitted to festivals. Jessie recently directed Fight Dirty (2026), a YA action romance for CandyJar.
She is a 2025 Djerassi Artist in Residence, 2024 Half Initiative directing fellow (Ryan Murphy Program), and 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow. The series she co-created went on to be developed with Warner Bros. Television and Tall Baby Productions. Jessie’s work has screened globally at festivals including Deauville, Berlinale, Tribeca, Mar Del Plata, and been featured by The National Board of Review, The New York Times, Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Pick, and USA Today.
Jessie’s critically acclaimed, award-winning feature debut, Sophie Jones, premiered in competition at the Deauville Film Festival and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories, earning a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and streaming on Showtime. The film is executive produced by Nicole Holofcener. Roger Ebert hailed it as “Superb." Variety called it "A fully realized portrait of grief that's universal," and The Playlist praised it as "Coming-of-age at its best. A quiet, brilliant film.'“
As a performance artist, Jessie appeared with Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova in PUSSY RIOT SIBERIA (2025) at MOCA. Jessie’s darkly funny, deeply personal cancer chronicle, Serving Cunt debuted at SADE Gallery in Los Angeles (2024), featuring original films, installations, and photography as a way to process her bladder cancer diagnosis, treatment, and healing.
Selected Clients: Garnier, Savannah Rose Studio.
Grant recognitions include: MOS Film Grant Recipient (2025), PEN America Writer's Grant Recipient (2020), and Oregon Film Grant Recipient (2019).
music video | 'nvr rlly' by king isis
feature | sophie jones
short | SyLVIA Vertical drama| fight dirty 
When I'm not writing + directing I provide consulting and coaching for screenwriters and actors across the globe. I’ve been requested to speak at conferences and universities including USC and NYU where my lectures range from the depiction of intimacy onscreen - particularly regarding women and girls - to “Sensual Cinema,” what it is, and why we need it.
I’m committed to exploring how marginalized communities use storytelling as a tool for creating who they are and what they want.
Engagements include keynotes, interviews, panels, Q&As, lectures, and more.
My darkly funny, deeply personal cancer chronicle, ‘Serving Cunt’ debuted at SADE Gallery in Los Angeles (2024), featuring original films, installations, and photography as a way to process her bladder cancer diagnosis, treatment, and healing.
Serving Cunt: Bold. To the point. And overall extravagant. Any gender can serve cunt. It's a mindset.
"Serving cunt" is the ability to portray great realness regardless of gender. Someone is "serving cunt" when they are slaying beyond comparison; when they do something undeniably fierce. For example, ‘Omg Chloe you're serving cunt tonight!’
Latest Project
FIGHT DIRTY (2026) Coming soon to CandyJar, AppleTV + Roku
Client List
Vertical Drama
CandyJar 2026
Commercial
Garnier 2026
Music Video
Dirty Hit 2024