Jennifer Hawley is a filmmaker based out of St. John’s, NL. In 2017 she was selected to participate in Telefilm and NIFCO’s Picture Start program, enabling her to produce the short film, Casey. Her short film has screened at both national and international film festivals and was selected as part of Telefilm’s Not Short On Talent program, where it screened during the short film corner at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2018 Jennifer was part of a team selected by The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival to participate in Telefilm’s Talent To Watch program with the feature film, Little Orphans.  The film went on to win Best Canadian Feature at the 2020 Borsos Competition at the Whistler Film Festival. Her feature documentary, Hell or Clean Water premiered at Hot Docs 2021 and won an Audience Choice award.

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Jennifer was one of the 60 producers from around the world selected to participate in the 2020 Rotterdam Lab. Jennifer holds the vice chair position on the board for the Nickle Independent Film Festival. She is also a board member for the Atlantic Chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada.