Amy Jump (born 1972)[1] is a British screenwriter and editor,[2] best known for films including Kill List, A Field in England, and High-Rise.[3] She and her husband,[4] director Ben Wheatley, have been described as 'one of the most formidable creative partnerships in film'.[2] Jump won a British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay for both Kill List and Sightseers.[5]

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Life and work

Amy Jump was born in Islington in 1972.[1] She met her future husband and collaborator, director Ben Wheatley, while both were studying for their A-Levels.[4] The couple now live together in Brighton.[6]

Jump and Wheatley collaborated on the website they created, MrandMrsWheatley.com, for which they produced short animations.[7] This helped to launch their respective careers, as they moved through creating live-action shorts to creating commercial work.[7][4] Since, the two have collaborated regularly on films.[2] Jump wrote and co-edited the thrillers Kill List, Sightseers and A Field In England, all directed by Wheatley.[5] Jump was also executive producer on Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy.[5]

Of working together, and of Jump's own approach to work and publicity, Wheatley has said:

I like the fact that we’re a couple making films, it makes it interesting... She’s completely outside of the industry, she doesn’t do interviews and doesn’t particularly like going up to London to events. She just wants to do the work, get in and get out. She’s not a cinephile, but she really cares about image and storytelling from her own unique perspective. But we’ve always had an agreement that I’ll be kind of like the face of it, I do all the press and that.[4]

Filmography

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