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Department Manager at Pixar Animation Studios, Producer of Starling, TEDx speaker & champion of more inclusive onscreen representation.
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Jessica Heidt is an American script supervisor and continuity department at Pixar Animation Studios.
Heidt also got to tell her story on the fourth episode of Inside Pixar.
She is credited with the creation of a new program in Pixar's systems that track their scripts by gender and let the crew know the "gender balance" in the films they are making. Jessica won an Unsung Hero Award (a trophy/award given to Pixar employees, also called a "Russell" due to the physical trophy being in the shape of the character of the same name from the 2009 Pixar film).
Heidt was inspired to make this program due to a problem she had been noticing throughout the films she was working at in Pixar. That problem being a consistent uneven gender ratio in the Pixar films. As a script supervisor, she had access to all of the films' scripts. While looking over the scripts for Cars 3, she did some calculations on how many lines male characters spoke versus female characters' spoken lines. She then discovered that the first script for Cars 3 was 90% male and only 10% female.
•Jessica has said she is a vegetarian.
Script and Continuity Department: Luca. Jessica Heidt is known for Luca (2021), Soul (2020) and Cars 3 (2017).
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Script Supervisor Jessica Heidt manages endless lines of dialogue. Through her script access, she detected a disparity in male to female roles, motivating her to create a program to improve gender balance throughout Pixar's films and the greater film industry. Duration: 13m. Release Date: 2020. Genre: Rating:
Mar 20, 2021 · No matter who you are or what you do, you have the power to make change. Hear more about how working on Cars 3 inspired Script Supervisor Jessica Heidt's his...
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May 26, 2021 · Civic Culture. Gender Equality in Film: An Interview with Jessica Heidt. May 26, 2021 By Points of Light. Jessica Heidt joined Pixar Animation Studios in August 2008 as a contractor in the Development department, before getting hired on full time in April 2013.
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Mar 22, 2022 · Jessica Heidt, Pixar’s script supervisor, noticed a discrepancy between male and female characters and speaking lines in the company’s films. This sparked a shift in how the animated film...
