Jaine Green, is a UK documentary maker and former Stand-up comedian.
13 Facts About Jaine Green
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Jaine Green won the Best Docu-Soap award at the National TV Awards and her short film, Cherry Cake, was an official selection at the 34th Vancouver International Film Festival; a finalist for the Best Narrative Short award at the 24th St Louis Film Festival; nominated for Best International Short Film at the 25th International Flickerfest Festival.
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Jaine Green was born in London, studied in Chichester and currently lives in Hastings on the south coast of England.
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Jaine Green's background is unconventional for a film director as she worked as a hairdresser and stand-up comedian, before winning a place on ITV's Metroland, a series for first time directors, with I have the gift, a documentary film about Leon, a postman in Brixton who claims to have abilities of psychic gifts and provides both physical and spiritual support.
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Jaine Green is the mother of spoken word artist and author Laura Dockrill.
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Jaine Green has been making controversial films since 1996, when one of her first documentaries I'm Your Number One Fan split the critics.
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Jaine Green made a Party Political Broadcast for the breakaway Pro-Euro Conservative Party which was declared as controversial by both The Guardian and The Independent.
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Jaine Green subsequently moved to Germany to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic.
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In 2014 Jaine Green wrote, directed and produced a short, independently funded drama, Cherry Cake, which has actors Matthew Kelly and Eve Pearce.
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In 2015 Jaine Green used Kickstarter to raise money for this project.
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In 2009, Jaine Green was executive producer on Channel 4's My Monkey Baby, about people who treat monkeys as children who don't grow up which provoked a debate about the ethics of keeping monkeys as pets.
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Jaine Green echoed her earlier interest in the paranormal as series producer in 2009 for Psychic Academy, where Tony Stockwell, who claims to have demonstrated psychic abilities as a child, attempts to identify members of the public who have the ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception or have the necessary intuitive processes to produce the appearance of such abilities.
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From 2015 to 2016, Jaine Green was the global Show Runner for UnderCover Angel, a ten part series for National Geographic Channel.