Jennifer

Jen Holness is a happy workaholic. She writes, produces, and directs. Her documentary, Subjects of Desire, premiered at SXSW and was a 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Top Ten film. BLK: AN ORIGIN STORY, a documentary series that she created won 5 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Director for her episode.Currently, Jen is co-directing the feature documentary #WhileBlack, with Sundance, POV and BBC that explores the role of citizen journalists and their engagement with policing. She is also in development on Nothing Fits, a documentary about fashion, body size and Hollywood. Jen recently produced RT Thorne’s thriller, 40 Acres, which will be released by Magnolia Pictures in the U.S. and Mongrel Media in Canada. Her feature films, Home Again and Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones, have screened and sold globally, earning multiple festival prizes, including a Best First Feature award at TIFF for Bones. As a writer and producer, Jen has been behind several TV drama series, including Shoot the Messenger and Guns, with the latter winning her a Best Writing Canadian Screen Award along with 4 other prizes. Named Indiescreen Producer of the Year in 2021, Jen also received the Women in Film and Television Creative Excellence Award in 2022 and was included in THR 2023 list of 40 Most Influential Women in International Film. In 2024 THR voted her one of the Most Powerful Women in Canadian Entertainment’. She is founder of the Black Screen Office in Canada and was its inaugural Board Chair. Jen has three kids, two dogs, and one husband, who is also her partner in crime at Hungry Eyes Media.