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Jess Search(1969-2023)

  • Producer
  • Director
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Jess Search
After 5 years as a commissioning editor in the documentaries department at Channel 4 TV in the UK, Jess Search left to set up the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation - Britain's first documentary foundation.

Jess is also a co-founder of Shooting People- an innovative online filmmakers community very active in the UK and New York.
BornMay 15, 1969
DiedJuly 31, 2023(54)
BornMay 15, 1969
DiedJuly 31, 2023(54)
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 1 win & 2 nominations total

Known for

While We Watched (2022)
While We Watched
8.6
  • Producer
  • 2022
Virunga (2014)
Virunga
8.1
  • Producer
  • 2014
How Is Your Fish Today? (2006)
How Is Your Fish Today?
6.2
  • Producer
  • 2006
Semangat
  • Producer
  • 2010

Credits

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Producer

  • Jenna Marvin in Queendom (2023)
    Queendom
    7.5
    • executive producer
    • 2023
  • While We Watched (2022)
    While We Watched
    8.6
    • executive producer
    • 2022
  • Natalia Sindeeva in F@ck This Job (2021)
    F@ck This Job
    7.4
    • executive producer
    • 2021
  • Maxim Lapunov in Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
    Welcome to Chechnya
    7.9
    • executive producer
    • 2020
  • Softie (2020)
    Softie
    7.3
    • executive producer
    • 2020
  • Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
    Cold Case Hammarskjöld
    7.5
    • executive producer: Bertha Foundation
    • 2019
  • Risk (2016)
    Risk
    6.4
    • executive producer
    • 2016
  • The Opposition (2016)
    The Opposition
    8.5
    • executive producer
    • 2016
  • Virunga (2014)
    Virunga
    8.1
    • executive producer
    • 2014
  • Dirty Wars Poster for U.S. Theatrical Release
    Dirty Wars
    7.4
    • executive producer
    • 2013
  • Who is Dayani Cristal? (2013)
    Who is Dayani Cristal?
    6.9
    • executive producer
    • 2013
  • Calvet (2011)
    Calvet
    7.8
    • executive producer
    • 2011
  • Up in Smoke (2011)
    Up in Smoke
    7.6
    • executive producer
    • 2011
  • Semangat
    • executive producer
    • 2010
  • My Kidnapper (2010)
    My Kidnapper
    6.6
    • executive producer
    • 2010

Director

  • Bruce Lee in The Tale of the Dragon, the Story of Bruce Lee (1999)
    The Tale of the Dragon, the Story of Bruce Lee
    8.7
    TV Special
    • Director
    • 1999

Personal details

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  • Born
    • May 15, 1969
    • Waterlooville, Hampshire, England, UK
  • Died
    • July 31, 2023
    • London, England, UK(brain cancer)
  • Spouse
    • Beadie Finzi? - July 31, 2023 (her death, 2 children)

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    With her partner Beadie Finzi, she has two children, Ella and Ben.

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