Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer.

Her breakthrough feature documentary Sherpa became the third highest-grossing Australian documentary of all time and was acclaimed internationally following screenings at Telluride, Toronto and the BFI London Film Festival, where it won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary. The film also received the Australian Film Critics Circle Award, the Australian Directors Guild Award and multiple audience awards, and was BAFTA nominated in 2015.

Her next feature, Mountain, created in collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, launched with a sell-out national concert tour before screening internationally at San Sebastián, London and Busan. It went on to surpass Sherpa to become the highest-grossing Australian documentary in box office history and screened theatrically in 26 countries.

River, Jen’s second collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, premiered at Telluride in 2021 and was released theatrically in Australia, the UK, the US and sold to over 20 international territories.

Jen is currently in post-production on the Apple Original Film Tenzing, a dramatic feature about Tenzing Norgay and the first ascent of Everest, written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion, Beautiful Boy), produced by See-Saw Films, and starring Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe, Genden Phuntsok and Caitríona Balfe.

Her other directing credits include Miracle on Everest, Living the End and Solo, which won multiple international awards, including the AFI Award for Best Documentary, the Australian Directors Guild Award and the Film Critics Circle Award.

Through her banner, Stranger Than Fiction Films, Jen is also an Emmy-nominated producer and executive producer, with credits including David Stratton’s Stories of Australian Cinema, Martha: A Picture Story, Harley & Katya, Sundance-selected SILENCED, and IMAX features including Mountain Quest and The Secret World of Fungi, Butterflies, Caves.

She is represented by Bec Smith at Anonymous Content.