About

Jacqueline Hynes is a writer and filmmaker from Bell Island, NL. Her film, The Passenger, was the recipient of the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award and her film Cardboard Junction, won the Nickel Independent Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Award. Hynes, with filmmaking partner Andrea Dunne, was recently selected for the NIFCO/Telefilm Picture Start program to produce the film, Malignant. In 2015, Hynes was awarded a Newfoundland Arts and Letters Award for her poem, Some Functions of the Wind.