Jo lewis

Jo is an award-winning writer, director & producer, currently directing feature documentary OWEN produced by Lee Brazier (YESTERDAY) and Executive Produced by SLASH of Guns‘n’Roses. The film is a co-production with Canada supported by Ontario Creates. Jo directed documentary #SUGARWATER following the first ever National Theatre performance by a deaf and disabled company (Graeae) and is attached to direct the Sci Fi MERMAID X produced by Douglas Cox (HOST) and Shadow House Film and ECHOLALIC for Erebus Pictures (HOARD/BONUS TRACK) developed with the BFI. Recently Jo directed an episode of Season 3 of the popular webseries REN THE GIRL WITH THE MARK and produced the short film GARDENING funded by the BFI animation fund. The film has screened at numerous Oscar qualifying film festivals including Dallas, Odense, Woodstock, Hollyshorts and SXSW (London). Jo has worked in TV production for companies including Talkback, Endemol, IWC, ITV, BBC and on feature-length documentary co-productions for Discovery Channel. Her production work includes films by Mike Leigh, Anthony Minghella, Ridley Scott and Andrea Arnold’s Oscar winning short film WASP. Jo runs her own Production company Hipster Films and is a member of Cinesisters and Directors UK.