JESS SEARCH – Executive Producer

Jess Search is Chief Executive of the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation and the BRITDOC festival- both organisations aim to ensure a creatively ambitious and diverse future for documentaries in the UK, by helping to fund, support, and facilitate the distribution of, British documentary films. The Foundation was established in 2005 and has funded dozens of documentaries including completed films, such as Black Gold, We Are Together,  How Is Your Fish Today, Half Life, and Talk To Me, which are now screening at prestigious festivals worldwide. Jess was previously Commissioning Editor for Independent Film and Video at Channel 4 for 5 years commissioning award winning new talent, innovative and polemic, high impact films such as Adam Ant: The Madness of Prince Charmin, My Foetus, Alt TV, the Outside Zone, and The Texas Season. She is the co-founder of Shooting People, the UK’s independent filmmakers’ community with over 30,000 members in the UK and 5,000 in New York