About
Over 15 years’ experience in branded content, short form docu's, adverts, feature films and shorts. Interviewed over 300 contribs, made 150 films. Edit produced 120 films. Award-winning independent filmmaker in shorts and feature films. Two years at Zinc Media Group as Creative Director, making over 30 films on sustainability and ESG themes, spearheading campaigns for organisations - ATAG, STI, WFO for COP 28
CV link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tbrdgrfd2wazummgyhzpw/Jack-Davies-CV.docx?rlkey=3zxzvsrimrx840l3eeidfjnza&st=jt5z0g0o&dl=0
Founder/Creative Director at Caper Film: https://caper.film/
Film for: Meiko/Dishroom, Visit Greater Palm Springs, Kind Marketing, CH4 Global, Unorthodox, Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce
Creative Director at Zinc Communicate, part of Zinc Media Group - films for State Street, Entia, Autoflight, UAC/Montana Aerospace, Mootral, Pentax Medical, LV, FMC, Kialo Edu, Transavia, Easyjet, Inmarsat
Sustainable tourism films for Sonoma Tourism, Visit Destination Victoria, Tourism in Skåne, Visit Laguna Beach, Visit Isle of Man, Eastern Board Virginia Tourism, Austria Tourism
Working across creative direction, pitching, script writing, directing, producing, edit producing, PR, copy, sales in sustainability, diversity, ESG, climate change, inclusion, equity. Winner at New York Festivals TV & Film Awards - Documentary - “Sustainable Travel: Where Next?”
Other clients:
Diageo - Festival of Brand Building, Mosaic, Positive Drinking, The Measure, Creativity and Cocktails
EY Consulting - Four Futures of AI, EY Healthy Consumer
Jet2/The Sunday Times - 2 films in Turkey
Ocean Foundation + Women's World Banking - Credit Suisse/NBC Universal,
M+S - Christmas Special, Greene King, HSBC, AIA, Barclays Bank, Buouygues Energies, Microsoft, ICAEW, PA Consulting, UKTI, BITC - Race for Opportunity Awards Dinner, Intuit, Samaritans - Shoe Box Christmas, Sutton Trust, Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, Interpol (Police Service) - Online Game Writer, Siemens, Sovereign, Amex, NetJets, Financial Times, Sogeti, Sovereign, TeleCity Group, Wynyard Group
Producer/Director/Writer - Feature Film - "Interview with an Android" - winner of 14 film festival awards and licensed to Amazon Prime Video 2025
Branded Content
Drama Features/Shorts
AWARDS/INITIATIVES/WRITING
AWARDS
Official Competition Selection Golden Lion Award - Venice Film Festival - Italy
Winner - Best Director (Feature Film) - Film and Horror Film Awards - UK
Winner - Best Feature Film - INFLUX Film Awards - California - USA
Winner - Best Experimental Film Award - Atlanta Spotlight Film Awards - USA
Winner - Best Direction + Best Feature Film - Saath Jiyo Foundation International
Winner - Best Film + Best Director - Gully International Film Festival - India
Winner - Best Feature Film + Best Director - Rajgir International Film Festival - India
Winner - Best Indie Feature Film - Independent Film Awards - UK
Winner - Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural Feature Film - AltFF - Canada
Winner - Best Narrative Feature - Lighthouse Film Festival - USA
Winner - Best Fantasy Feature Film - Hallucinea Film Festival - France
Winner - Best Feature Film - CineTech Future Fest - Poland
Winner - Best Fantasy Feature Film - Milan Independent Awards - Italy
Winner - Best Director + Best Feature Film - Nawada International Film Festival - India
Winner - Best Experimental Short Film - Golden Sparrow International Film Festival
Winner - Best Fearless Short - Make Art Not Fear Festival - Lisbon
Winner - Audience Award - Uppsala Film Festival - Sweden
Winner - Best Short Film - FLUX Moving Image Artist's Festival - UK
Winner - Best of Festival Award - Black Earth Festival, Chicago - USA
Runner-Up Prize - Quantum Shorts Film Festival - Singapore
Nominated for Best Foreign Film - LA Comedy Film Festival - USA
Honourable Mention - MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival - USA
Honourable Mention - Dubai Film Festival - UAE
Honourable Mention - Sydney Australian Film Festival - Australia
Honorable Mention - Independent Film Awards - Leeds - UK
Nominated - Off Pocket Film Festival - Brazil
Finalist - Feature Film - Prisma Rome International Film Festival - Italy
Finalist - Feature Film - Stockholm City Film Festival - Sweden
Finalist - Chuncheon Film Festival - China
Finalist - Spring Ding Film Festival - USA
Finalist - Link International Film Festival - UK
Semi Finalist - Blue Planet Science Fiction Film Festival - China
Semi-Finalist - Festival del Cinema di Cefalù - Italy
Semi-Finalist - LELOUN International Film Festival - Syria
INITIATIVES
Rolex Protégé and Mentor Arts Initiative Final candidate mentored by Stephen Frears
Founder, Teacher - Forward Focus Film School for young people affected by the Grenfell tragedy
Founder, programmer - Cube Cinema, Bristol
Judge - COVID-19 World Student Film Festival
Judge - 2025 International Student Shorts Film Competition
Bournemouth Film School Graduate
SCREENWRITING
‘Mr Fingers’ - Feature Screenwriter - Creative England Emerging Talent Fund -
Optioned by The Fyzz Facility
‘Waterfall’ - Feature Screenwriter - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis/S4C
‘Disco Inferno’ - TV/Feature Bible Writer - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis
‘Passenger’ - Feature Screenwriter - Black Camel Productions
‘Incomers’ - Feature Script Editor - Ffatti Films/Tinopolis
AUTHOR
'944 Hidalgo' - sci-fi novel published by RoundFire Books - June 24th 2025
'Jove' - spy detective thriller novel due to be published by Roundfire Books - June 30th 2026
https://www.jackdaviesauthor.com/