Jennifer Perrott
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Jennifer Perrott is an award-winning writer & director for television and film, who moved to the UK to live and work after beginning her career in Australia. She most recently directed RAIN DOGS, starring Daisy May Cooper, for Sid Gentle/BBC/HBO. The series was extremely well received, with Time Magazine naming it among the Ten Best Television Series of 2023. Jennifer’s other UK credits include Sally Wainwright’s GENTLEMAN JACK, starring Suranne Jones, for Lookout Point/BBC/HBO.
Jennifer is currently in late development on a major feature film which she has co-originated, and which was selected for development at the prestigious The Write Retreat lab in Mallorca, Spain, last year.
Jennifer first came to international attention with her highly acclaimed theatrical short film THE RAVENS, starring Emmy award-winning actress Sarah Snook (Succession), which Jennifer directed, wrote and produced, and which earned Jennifer best direction and best short film awards at numerous festivals around the world, including the Academy Award®-Qualifying Heartland Film Festival (USA).
THE RAVENS screened at over 70 festivals, winning Grand Jury Prize at the Heartland Film Festival (USA), among many other awards, and earned Jennifer nominations at both the Australian Directors’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. (THE RAVENS’ full list of screenings and festival awards can be found here: https://jenniferperrott.com/project/the-ravens/).
In Australia, Jennifer’s directing credits include long-running dramedy OFFSPRING, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s NEWTON’S LAW, and SECRET BRIDESMAID’S BUSINESS starring Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).
Jennifer attended Amsterdam’s prestigious Binger Lab as writer/director with her feature WINTER SUN, also a semi-finalist in the International BlueCat Screenplay competition.
Jennifer began her career as an assistant editor, later graduating from the Directing course at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with a communications degree in film theory.
Growing up on Australia’s wild and remote south-east coast, and later living for a decade in The Netherlands, Monaco, France and now England, has taught Jennifer a love for and fascination with nature and landscape, often a featured signature of her visual work.
RAIN DOGS
Craig Mathieson, The Sydney Morning Herald
The first essential new series of 2023, this unfiltered, revelatory comic-drama is the strongest TV example of London calling since Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You.
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone
Rain Dogs’ Is One of the Most Surprising New Shows of the Year.
Judy Berman, Time Magazine
HBO’s Magnificently Dark Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV.
Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast
This Biting, Brilliant Show Will Be HBO’s Next Sleeper Hit.
Judy Berman, Time Magazine
One of the Best TV Shows of 2023 So Far.
GENTLEMAN JACK
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian
Gentleman Jack is a true TV marvel – romantic, raw and totally radical.
Ed Cumming, Independent
A confident, smart period drama.
James Poniewozik, The New York Times
[The series] offers an engrossing 19th-century comedy of social mores and upends the heteronormative assumptions of such stories.
Suzi Feay, Financial Times
Gentleman Jack is a sparkling delight.
Carol Midgley, The Times
A powerhouse performance by Jones.
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph
The show blossoms into a captivating conspiracy thriller with an enjoyably explosive finale.
Carol Midgely, The Times
A lush bingeable treat
DOCTOR WHO Episode 5 – The Tsuranga Conundrum
Michael Horgan, The Telegraph
The best episode of the new-look series so far.
DOCTOR WHO Episode 7 – Kerblam!
Ed Power, The Independent
This is Doctor Who at its finely-teased best….Just what the Doctor ordered.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy
'Kerblam!' remains… a near-perfect package, blending action, scares, and just a dash of satire to great effect.
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
RAIN DOGS | Sid Gentle/BBC/HBO | Director. |
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS | Sky/Snowed-In Productions/ Route 24 | Director. |
TIES THAT BIND | Seven Studios/C4 | Director. |
GENTLEMAN JACK | Lookout Point/BBC 1/HBO | Director. 2 x 60'. |
DOCTOR WHO | BBC 1 | Director, 2 x 60' |
NEWTON'S LAW | ABC Drama / Every Cloud Productions | Director, 2 x 60'. Drama. |
OFFSPRING SERIES 4 | Southern Star/Channel 10 Australia | Director, 2 x 60'. Drama. |
STACKED | Channel 4 | Director, 1 x 30'. Comedy drama, with Karen Gillan. |
ECHO BEACH | Kudos Productions/ ITV | Director, 3 x 30'. |
THE CHASE | Rollem productions/ BBC | Director, 2 x 60'. |
HOLLYOAKS | Mersey TV/ Channel 4 | Director, 2 x 30'. |
DOCTORS | BBC1 | Director, 6 x 30'. |
HOLLYOAKS | Mersey TV/ Channel 4 | Director, 2 x 30'. |
Short Films
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
THE RAVENS | Iluka Films | Writer and Director. NOMINATED |
THE EXAMPLE | Iluka Films/ Directors UK/ Arri | Director. |
FLIGHT | UK Film Council | Digital Short. |
TITUS THE GREAT | Short film. | |
SCAR STORIES | Short film. | |
A MATTER OF LIFE | Short film. | |
BREATHE | Short film. |
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
BOYCHIK | Feature Film “A life-changing secret forces 11 year old Chaya and her father Simcha to leave their tiny Ultra |