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JessFeast

Ngāti Raukawa
  • Director
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Jess Feast's documentaries have covered everything from Berlin and nuns to the Flight of the Conchords. Cowboys & Communists examined cultural conflicts in post-cold war Berlin via an American-themed bar which was too loud for the residents upstairs. Her breakout hit Gardening with Soul follows a year in the life of a vivacious nonagenarian nun. It was named Best Documentary of 2013 at New Zealand's Moa Film Awards.

Screenography

Shot Bro
2020 Director Television
Rise
2020 Director Short film
Mana Moana
2019 Director Series
Aren't Can't Don't
2018 Executive Producer Web
Gardening with Soul
2013 Director Film

Biography

Jess Feast is an award-winning filmmaker, best known for her 2013 green-fingered nun documentary Gardening with Soul and Cowboys & Communists, a portrait of Berlin after the Wall came down.

Awards

2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director -  Documentary/Factual: for Shot Bro

2013 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Documentary: Gardening with Soul

“Now is the time to record these stories. For me it was important to record a story that I had never heard before ... and a lot of Germans had never heard it.”

— Jess Feast on her documentary Cowboys and Communists