Jess is the co-founder and Artistic Director of content production company TEN ALPHAS. She has extensive media, strategy and hands-on filmmaking experience. She has held key creative positions with Cutting Edge, Defence, Mazda Australia and The Australian Communications and Media Authority and lectured in design/animation at The Queensland College of Art. When Jess isn’t working on corporate films she can be found working on her own projects, most recently she produced and directed a Rockumentary in Chiang Mai Thailand, the first of a six part series of music documentaries shot in emerging regions of South East Asia, the film is currently in post production. Closer to home Jess is directing a documentary called The Art of Startup Perseverance and along with Nick Bolton is a filmmaker in residence at iAccelerate, at The University of Wollongong’s startup incubator.
Jess holds degrees in theatre/fine art, digital design (hons) and is AFTRS alumni having completed her Masters in Screen Arts and Business at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2014.
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