Hi I’m Jade. I’m a multi-disciplinary storyteller, artist, designer, and musician.
Over the past decade I have built my career creating and collaborating on projects with a positive message, intended for a global audience. These collaborations span a wide range of formats and mediums. With a background in documentary filmmaking, Everything from documentary feature films and scripted short films, to childrens books, graphic novels, animation sequences and music!
My work is always focussed on positive, solutions-based storytelling and often collects around the themes of future solutions, fairness and equity, indigenous wisdom, climate change solutions, the refugee experience, wildlife conservation, social justice, human rights, the philosophy of life itself and mythology.
As a director and producer, I write, develop, sell and produce independant short films. I often also assist larger teams and have experience both as an independent filmmaker, as well as a story producer and unit director for broadcast television and theatrical feature filmmaking teams. I have travelled the globe making films, collaborating with local storytellers to make beautiful art together and share these powerful messages.
I’ve worked for Netflix, BBC, Amazon, Sky, Smithsonian, HHMI Tangled Bank and Youtube as well as independent production houses - Tailfeather, Shadow, Storyhunter, Arrow Media, RAWTV, Cinefromage, Talesmith, Waterbear Network, Blue Gray, Passion Planet and Make Waves.
As a designer, I create treatments, storyboards, graphics, props, film posters, concept artwork, and other digital media for film and music. I also illustrate children books, graphic novels, and other educational content.
I work across animation too. Below is a short clip from of a 5 minute story featured in the documentary short, Mother of the Forest: Curupira, I directed for the Living Stories series, currently housed on the WaterBear Network.
A little more about me.
In 2021, I relocated to Senegal to project manage a community restoration effort in collaboration with local NGO, Maison de la Gare (featured in ‘The Letter’), after devastating floods hit the town of Saint-Louis rendering many young people and their families homeless and vulnerable.
In 2024 I was given the wonderful opportunity to release my first single as a musician. My cover of the American Folk song ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ is available on all streaming platforms and is currently a licensed sountrack for the Podcast ‘Sayonaraville’. On January 24th, 2025. My first original track ‘Mangroves’ was released into the wild.
I now work remotely and with a growing international client base, am always open to new opportunities to connect and collaborate wherever in the world you are! Follow my journey using the social links below and of course - say hi!