About
Over thirty years’ experience in short form docu's, narrative shorts and feature films. Interviewed over 300 contribs, made over 150 films. Edit produced over 120 films.
Founder/Creative Director at Caper Film: https://caper.film/
Two years as Creative Director at Zinc Media across all films - '22 - '24 Produced/Directed films for State Street, Sonoma Tourism, Visit Destination Victoria, Tourism in Skåne, Entia, Autoflight, Hinckley and Rugby Building Society, UAC/Montana Aerospace, IBA, West Midland Pensions, , ATAG, Trafalgar House, Acadian Plant Health, Visit Laguna Beach, Mootral, Pentax Medical, Visit Isle of Man, Transavia, Mootral - Saving the World, CH4 Global, LV, FMC, Kialo Edu, Sustainable Travel International, Skåne - Blue Tourism, Mootral - Animation, Austria, Meiko/Dishroom, Visit Greater Palm Springs...
Working across creative direction, pitching, script writing, directing, producing, edit producing, PR, copy, sales in sustainability, diversity, ESG, climate change, inclusion, equity. Winner at New York Festivals TV & Film Awards - Documentary - “Sustainable Travel: Where Next?”
AWARDS
Official Competition Selection Golden Lion Award - Venice Film Festival
Winner - Best Feature Film - INFLUX Film Awards - California, USA - 2025
Winner of Best Direction + Best Feature Film - Saath Jiyo Foundation International - India - 2025
Winner of Best Indie Feature Film - Independent Film Awards - UK - 2024
Winner of Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural Feature Film - AltFF - Canada - 2024
Winner of Best Narrative Feature - Lighthouse Film Festival - USA
Winner of Best Fantasy Feature Film - Hallucinea Film Festival - 2024
Winner of Best Feature Film - CineTech Future Fest - Poland - 2024
Winner of Best Fantasy Feature Film - Milan Independent Awards - Italy - 2024
Winner of Best Director + Best Feature Film - Nawada International Film Festival - India - 2024
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Golden Sparrow International Film Festival - 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Valparai International Film Festival - 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Golden Horse International Film Festival - 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Rohip International Film Festival - India - 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Kathakali International Film Festival - 2023
Winner Best Experimental Film Award - Atlanta Spotlight Film Awards - 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Kerala Short Film Festival - India 2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film - Yak International Film Festival,
Cuddalore - India 2023
Winner of Best Fearless Short - Make Art Not Fear Festival - Lisbon - 2022
Winner of Audience Award - Uppsala Film Festival - Sweden
Winner of Best Short Film - FLUX Moving Image Artist's Festival - UK
Winner of Best of Festival Award - Black Earth Festival, Chicago - USA
Runner-Up Prize - Quantum Shorts Film Festival - Singapore
Nominated for Best Foreign Film - LA Comedy Film Festival - USA
Honourable Mention - MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival
Honourable Mention - Dubai Film Festival
Honourable Mention - Sydney Australian Film Festival
Finalist - Feature Film - Prisma Rome International Film Festival - Italy 2025
Finalist - Feature Film - Stockholm City Film Festival - Sweden - 2025
Finalist - Chuncheon Film Festival - China
Finalist - Spring Ding Film Festival - USA
Finalist - Link International Film Festival - UK
Semi Finalist - Blue Planet Science Fiction Film Festival - China - 2024
Semi-Finalist - Festival del Cinema di Cefalù - Italy
Semi-Finalist - LELOUN International Film Festival - Syria
INITIATIVES, EDUCATION
Commissioned feature film screenwriter for Tinopolis, Ffatti Ffilms, Black Camel, S4C, Welsh Film Fund
Recipient of Creative England's Emerging Talent Fund
Rolex Protégé and Mentor Arts Initiative Final candidate mentored by Stephen Frears
Founder, Teacher - Forward Focus Film School for young people affected by the Grenfell tragedy
Founder, programmer - Cube Cinema, Bristol
Judge - COVID-19 World Student Film Festival
Bournemouth Film School Graduate
SCREENWRITING
‘Mr Fingers’ - Feature Screenwriter - Creative England Emerging Talent Fund -
Optioned by The Fyzz Facility
‘Waterfall’ - Feature Screenwriter - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis/S4C
‘Disco Inferno’ - TV/Feature Bible Writer - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis
‘Passenger’ - Feature Screenwriter - Black Camel Productions
‘Incomers’ - Feature Script Editor - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis
AUTHOR
'Jove' - spy detective thriller novel due to be published by Roundfire Books - 2026
'944 Hidalgo' - sci-fi novel due to be published by RoundFire Books - June 24th 2025
https://www.jackdaviesauthor.com/
'5,000 years' short story published in Horizon Magazine - 2021
'Canal' short story in isacoustic - 2020
'Palm' short story published in Yellow Mama - 2020
'Out Here' short story published in Shotgun Honey - 2020
Shortlisted for the York Poetry Prize - 2020