COHORT 1 PARTICIPANT

Jennifer Holness

Jennifer has created and produced several TV series including: Shoot The Messenger (CBC, WGN) Guns (CBC) and She’s the Mayor (Vision, BBC WW). She is also in development with CBC on the comedy series, #relationship goals and the drams series, The Wild.
She produced the TV documentaries - Speakers For The Dead that she also directed (CBC), Badge of Pride (CBC & PBS), Brick By Brick (Omni), Yin Yin Jade Love (TVO), and Dolores: Art of Art Modeling (Bravo!)
She is in post on the feature doc Hispaniola, with director Michele Stephenson (American Promise) for PBS. She is the Executive Producer of feature doc Black Zombie, currently in development with CBC’s Doc Channel.
She is also directing her feature doc Subjects of Desire about cultural appropriation and the Black female image. The documentary is in production with TVO
Jen’s feature credits include Home Again staring Stephen James and Tatyana Ali and she wrote the story for and produced the triple Genie nominated feature, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones that also won 9 festival awards including the Best First Canadian Feature at TIFF.
Other feature projects including the German-Canadian co-pro RipTide, which is being distributed by Mongrel Media.