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Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA-nominated Australian director.[1]

Jennifer Peedom
Jen Peedom
Born	Jennifer Peedom Canberra
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	RMIT, Melbourne
Occupation	Director, writer & producer
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Mark Rogers

Her documentary Solo (co-directed with David Michôd) won the 2009 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary in Under One Hour.^{[citation needed]}

Her film Sherpa, which was filmed during the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche,[2][3][4] won the 2015 Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival.[5] It premiered internationally at the Telluride Film Festival[6] and also screened at Toronto Film Festival[7] and received a BAFTA nomination in 2016 for Best Documentary.[8]

In 2017 she directed Mountain, a collaboration the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) with script by Robert Macfarlane,[9] narrated by Willem Dafoe.[10] It screened theatrically in 27 countries and went on to become the highest grossing non-IMAX Australian documentary of all time[11] (as of 3 March 2022^[update], third). [12] It won three AACTA Awards in 2018.[13]

In 2021 Peedom co-directed, with Joseph Nizeti, River, a documentary about rivers with a similar scope and format as Mountain. The film is also written by Macfarlane, narrated by Dafoe, and accompanied by a soundtrack by the ACO.[11]

Peedom is married to stills photographer, Mark Rogers. They have two children, Tashi and Luca.[14]

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