In Corpore
Co-Director / Co-Producer / Co-Writer
Sarah Jayne started her film and television career as a production designer in 2000, working on numerous short films in various art department roles and with Australian industry heavyweights on a number of feature films.
In 2013 Sarah Jayne moved into writing and directing her first short film Dusk, and since then she has been predominantly working as a writer, director and producer on her own projects, including short films Anniversary and Daughter, the latter a film and awareness project addressing victim blaming and gendered violence.
Daughter, starring Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why, Knives Out), has toured Melbourne and Victoria, picked up various festival awards, including Best Short Film at Women Media Arts Film Festival, a Silver Remi from Houston Worldfest, and the Grapple award at Anarco Film Festival.
The film is available as an educational tool for Australian schools through Australian Teachers of Media, ClickView, Beamafilm, in North America via Amazon Prime and also globally through Vimeo On Demand and IndieFlix.
In 2017 Sarah Jayne directed two completely improvised features under her company Nexus Production Group; Friends, Foes & Fireworks — shot in 24 hours with a skeleton crew over New Year’s Eve, and in late 2017-2018 In Corpore — shot in Berlin, Malta, Australia and New York with four separate local crews.
Aside from feature films, Sarah Jayne directs NPG’s ongoing micro-short series Life Improvised and is directing the company’s latest documentary Cats of Malta. Sarah Jayne is also scheduled to direct a lesbian feature film produced by NPG titled To Hold the Moon in Malta during Summer 2021, for which she is writing the screenplay and taking on a producer role.
