ScreenTalk: Rachel Jean
27 Apr 2011
Rachel Jean has produced and directed more than 40 documentaries, made award-winning drama and film. She recently moved to the role of Head of Drama and Comedy at TV3 and C4.
Rachel Jean has produced and directed more than 40 documentaries, made award-winning drama and film, and set up and run production company Isola Productions. Jean has recently moved from producing and directing to the role of Head of Drama and Comedy at TV3 and C4.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Jean reveals:
- Details of her early work at Frame Up Films
- How feature film Memory and Desire was conceived
- Hilarious and embarrassing moments during filming of Love Mussel
- The joys of spending her pregnancy on the floor and laughing while helping write Secret Agent Men
- How The Market came about, and its intriguing production philosophy
- An insight into the making of her documentary Life, Death and a Lung Transplant about her husband’s Cystic Fibrosis and lung transplant
- Her most satisfying achievements so far as Head of Drama and Comedy at TV3 and C4
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
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