Jennifer Peedom
Jen Peedom
Born
Jennifer Peedom

Canberra
NationalityAustralian
Alma materRMIT, Melbourne
Occupation(s)Director, writer & producer
Years active2000–present
SpouseMark Rogers

Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA-nominated Australian director.[1]

Her documentary Solo (co-directed with David Michôd) won the 2009 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary in Under One Hour.[citation needed]

Her film Sherpa, which was filmed during the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche,[2][3][4] won the 2015 Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival.[5] It premiered internationally at the Telluride Film Festival[6] and also screened at Toronto Film Festival[7] and received a BAFTA nomination in 2016 for Best Documentary.[8]

In 2017 she directed Mountain, a collaboration the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) with script by Robert Macfarlane,[9] narrated by Willem Dafoe.[10] It screened theatrically in 27 countries and went on to become the highest grossing non-IMAX Australian documentary of all time[11] (as of 3 March 2022, third). [12] It won three AACTA Awards in 2018.[13]

In 2021 Peedom co-directed, with Joseph Nizeti, River, a documentary about rivers with a similar scope and format as Mountain. The film is also written by Macfarlane, narrated by Dafoe, and accompanied by a soundtrack by the ACO.[11]

Peedom is married to stills photographer, Mark Rogers. They have two children, Tashi and Luca.[14]

References

  1. ^ Nicholson, Laura (14 September 2015). "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Jennifer Peedom - 'Sherpa'". Women and Hollywood. Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  2. ^ Kay, Jeremy (16 September 2015). "Sherpa director: how I tackled Everest". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Utichi, Joe (24 November 2015). "'Sherpa' doc director Jennifer Peedom on filming through Everest tragedy & giving the sherpas a voice". Deadline.com.
  4. ^ Brill, Karen (11 November 2015). "Watch: 'Sherpa' Director Jennifer Peedom on the Tragic Cost of Making a Movie on Mt. Everest (Exclusive)". Indiewire.com.
  5. ^ "59th BFI London Film Festival award winners". British Film Institute.
  6. ^ "'Sherpa' and 'Winter on Fire' Display Good Timing at Telluride Film Festival". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. ^ Kay, Jeremy (16 September 2015). "Sherpa director: how I tackled Everest". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  8. ^ "2016 Film Documentary | BAFTA Awards". BAFTA Awards. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  9. ^ Israel, Janine (13 June 2017). "Mountain review: a sublime rush of adrenaline and orchestral beauty from the director of Sherpa". The Guardian.
  10. ^ "Review: 'Mountain' Features Frightening Sights and Breathtaking Image". Nytimes.coms. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  11. ^ a b Jefferson, Dee (24 March 2022). "River: Australian documentary narrated by Willem Dafoe highlights the importance and precarity of rivers worldwide". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  12. ^ "All-time top 10 Australian documentaries at the box office, ranked by total reported gross Australian box office". Screen Australia. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Winners & Nominees". AACTA. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  14. ^ Junker, Ute (25 March 2022). "'We were like magnets': The friends who bridged a 20-year age gap to fall in love". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 April 2022.


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