Jan is a multi award winning screenwriter & film director whose roots began as an actress in the theatre, she began getting noticed as a filmmaker with her short comedies Mary’s Date (1999) and Joan (2001), both audience favourites. Following the release in 2006 by Lionsgate Films of her acclaimed first feature film Gypo, The Hollywood Reporter stated she was “a filmmaker to watch” with Screen International calling her “a very promising new British Talent”. The film became multi-award winning including a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Production, then came Ruby Blue starring Bob Hoskins, another international award winner & The Calling starring Brenda Blethyn and a stellar British and releases in the US February 2014.
She is currently adapting the bestselling novel by Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, set during the great plague of 1666. The film is being developed by Creative England as a Co-production between Violet Pictures and NOWFilms.
Jan is about to direct her adaptation of the Rose Tremain best-seller, Sacred Country for CrossDay Productions and, co-writing a TV comedy-drama, Tongue & Groove with Rob Young (about a women’s construction firm) for Slyfox Films for producer Linda James and a 3 part period drama.
Trebuchet Film Productions 