Jennifer Perrott
Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Jennifer Perrott is a 2025 Emmy nominated, award-winning director, writer and producer for film and TV, who moved to the UK to live and work after beginning her career in Australia. Jennifer 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 their Ten Best Television Series of 2023. Jennifer’s many other UK credits include Sally Wainwright’s BAFTA-nominated GENTLEMAN JACK, starring Suranne Jones, for Lookout Point/BBC/HBO.
Jennifer is currently in late development on the feature film BOYCHIK, which she has co-originated, and which was selected for development at the prestigious The Write Retreat lab in Mallorca, Spain, in 2023. The project is planned to shoot in 2025.
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 her best direction and best short film awards at numerous festivals around the world, including Grand Jury Prize at the Academy Award-qualifying Heartland Film Festival (USA). The film screened at over 70 festivals, and also earned Jennifer nominations at both the Australian Directors’ Guild and Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. (A 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 hit 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 given Jennifer a love for and fascination with nature and landscape, often a featured signature of her visual work.
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THE RAVENS
“A mesmerizing film […] weaves together D.P. John Brawley’s exceptional lensing design with a script by Perrott that is poignant, insightful, aching and utterly captivating. As the young girl, Indianna Gregg infuses young Ruby with a vulnerability that makes you practically want to run up to her and wrap her in your arms, while Jeremy Lindsay Taylor’s difficult turn as a father returning from war with PTSD is occasionally difficult to watch and always impossible to not watch. As the mother/wife struggling to hold it all together Sarah Snook is simply sublime.” Richard Propes, The Independent Critic
“Emotionally charged, authentic performances, directed with such sensitivity, is a most visceral + poignant film about PTSD that will both break + heal you. Great film that depicts the psychological effect of war. A lot of hard times, drama and violence on the road to heal the trauma.” Sofy TV
“Director Jennifer Perrott [… has] written a poignant and tender film.” James Cunnigham, Australian Cinematographer
RAIN DOGS
“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.” Craig Mathieson, The Sydney Morning Herald
“Rain Dogs’ Is One of the Most Surprising New Shows of the Year.” Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone
“HBO’s Magnificently Dark Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV.” Judy Berman, Time Magazine
“This Biting, Brilliant Show Will Be HBO’s Next Sleeper Hit.”Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast
“One of the Best TV Shows of 2023 So Far.” Judy Berman, Time Magazine
GENTLEMAN JACK
“Gentleman Jack is a true TV marvel – romantic, raw and totally radical.” Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian
“A confident, smart period drama.” Ed Cumming, Independent
“[The series] offers an engrossing 19th-century comedy of social mores and upends the heteronormative assumptions of such stories.” James Poniewozik, The New York Times
“Gentleman Jack is a sparkling delight.” Suzi Feay, Financial Times
“A powerhouse performance by Jones.” Carol Midgley, The Times
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
“The show blossoms into a captivating conspiracy thriller with an enjoyably explosive finale.” Michael Hogan, The Telegraph
“A lush bingeable treat” Carol Midgely, The Times
DOCTOR WHO Episode 5 – The Tsuranga Conundrum
“The best episode of the new-look series so far.” Michael Horgan, The Telegraph
DOCTOR WHO Episode 7 – Kerblam!
“This is Doctor Who at its finely-teased best….Just what the Doctor ordered.” Ed Power, The Independent
“'Kerblam!' remains… a near-perfect package, blending action, scares, and just a dash of satire to great effect.” Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy
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. *Heartland International Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize Best Narrative Short (Winner) |
THE EXAMPLE | Iluka Films/ Directors UK/ Arri | Director. |
FLIGHT | UK Film Council | Director |
TITUS THE GREAT | Director | |
SCAR STORIES | Director | |
A MATTER OF LIFE | Director | |
BREATHE | Director |
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 |