Jean is an award-winning writer, director and producer whose work has screened in cities across Canada, Europe and the Americas. Her short film, Memory of the Peace was the winner of the Matrix Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2018. She has pitched at forums including the Sheffield DOC/FEST and is the co-founder of film arts collective ‘self-directed studies.’ The collective’s first film, CABBIE, was the recipient of the BC Ignite Award for Outstanding Female Key Creative at VIFF 2016. Her work explores the boundaries of perception and identity–and looks at systemic, political issues through the lens of deeply personal stories about individuals. Jean was the recipient of the Telus STORYHIVE 100K grant, with which she produced her first series, In Chinatown. It aired on Telus Optik in July 2018 to wide acclaim. Summer 2018, she flew to South America to direct a short essay film about the complexities of conservation in the Madre de Dios rainforest region of Peru, to be completed in Spring 2019. Most recently, Jean was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts to direct a scripted short currently titled Spring Tide.
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