MEET JANE
Jane is a multi-award winning director and writer of drama and documentary.
Her directing style is heart-led, beautifully crafted, with a sense of humour.
Jane was lead creative on Back to Nature (also Series producer and Writer-Director of 3 episodes), an 8 part documentary series TV critics dubbed “This year’s most beautiful new show” and “My favourite new show of this year.” Broadcast on ABC TV in 2021, Back to Nature was a co-production with Media Stockade.
Jane wrote and directed the documentary Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation (ABC TV), for which she received a 2016 ADG nomination and was Highly Commended. She was writer-director of multiple episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? (SBS), Coast Australia (Foxtel), and Two of Us (SBS), and lead director on the flagship Channel 9 war history series In Their Footsteps.
Her drama film Delivery Day (28’) won many awards including the Padino D’Oro for Best International Short Film at the Locarno Film Festival; First Place at the Palm Springs International Film Festival; Best Australian Film and Most Popular Film at Australia’s premier short film festival, Flickerfest; and was longlisted for the 74th Academy Awards nominations. Delivery Day also received citations from both the Adults’ and Children’s juries at the Berlin Film Festival and the Chicago International Children's Festival praising the ‘maturity and grace, subtlety, intensity and conviction’ of Jane’s directing.
For her first short film One That Got Away (7’) Jane took home the award for Best Director at Flickerfest. She’s directed drama components for a number of true crime series, including the long running Deadly Women, and was one of the first female directors of Home and Away.
Jane was mentored by some outstanding directors including Michael Jenkins (Blue Murder, The Leaving of Liverpool, Heartbreak High) and Rob Sitch (The Dish, The Castle).
Jane has commercially: various TVCs and the branded content documentary All I Need which went viral and won the Grand Prix at BeFest 2016.
Jane is available for freelance work.
She recently co-founded Lantern Pictures with Writer-Showrunner Sarah Lambert and Media Executive Andrew Lambert to create bold, premium, international TV drama series.
She is currently attached as director on the family feature film, Smooch and Rose.
She lives on Gamaragal Country in Sydney, Australia.