Jackie van Beek

The multi-talented Jackie van Beek emerged from Wellington’s theatre scene in the 1990s. After directing a run of award-winning shorts, her first feature The Inland Road was invited to the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. She went on to co-write, co-direct and co-star in The Breaker Upperers with Madeleine Sami, and helm multiple roles on other comedies; film Nude Tuesday, series Educators and the Australian adaption of The Office.

A bit of panic excites me, actually. You learn to be bold and to fail and to carry on. That’s when you truly feel alive. Jackie van Beek, in a Listener interview with Diana Wichtel, 15 October 2015