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Jaye Renold

UK

Filmmaker, visual journalist & Emerging Filmmakers Program Director.

Jaye Renold is a filmmaker and visual journalist with a background in environmental campaigning, anthropology and visual arts. She directs, films and edits documentaries and short films for a variety of media, grassroots activist groups, NGOs and international bodies, specializing in co-creative filmmaking to communicate the many-faceted stories of climate justice, social-ecological crises and their solutions. As director or DP she has filmed in diverse conditions from tropical rainforests to parliamentary chambers and street protests across 5 continents and her footage has appeared internationally, from Times Square to TV Globo Brasil. At If Not Us Then Who she works with a network of indigenous emerging filmmakers on film production and distribution.

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