Jessie Deeter is an Oakland, California-based documentary producer. She just finished producing “Who Killed the Electric Car?,” a feature-length documentary that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics in the summer of 2006.

In the fall of 2003 Jessie won a PEW international journalism fellowship that funded a trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she found her UN characters and shot the first part of the film. Jessie traveled back to Liberia in April and November, 2004 to film disarmament and the end of Opande’s service, and find out whether the ex-combatants were living the new lives Opande had promised them.

Her short documentary following Opande through the disarmament process, “No More War,” aired on FRONTLINE/World in May, 2005. The hour-long documentary, “Taking Guns From Boys,” which also looks at what choices Liberians face at the end of their civil war, has just been completed and will screen at film festivals soon.

Jessie also field-produced “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” a 45-minute documentary on Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga that aired on PBS’ Wide Angle in September, 2004. In the spring and summer of 2003, Jessie traveled to five countries to field-produce a documentary for the Asia Foundation’s 50th anniversary. Prior to that, Jessie worked as an associate producer for FRONTLINE/World and FRONTLINE’s “Modern Meat” and “Blackout” documentaries.

Jessie’s half-hour student documentary on Mexican workers at the racetrack, “Some They Win,” screened at several film festivals and won an audience award at the Berkeley film festival in 2001. Jessie received a Master’s in Journalism and a Master’s in International and Area Studies, Middle East focus, from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She was a Peace Corps volunteer who started a university English program in Settat, Morocco and she speaks fluent French and passable Arabic and Spanish.