Jennifer Kent

JENNIFER KENT graduated from NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) as an actor and has worked extensively in theatre, film and TV in Australia. In 2002, Jennifer undertook a directing attachment with Lars von Trier on Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman.
She has since been writing and developing her own film projects. Jennifer's award winning short film, Monster, was screened at over forty international festivals. She was one of the directors on Two Twisted, a series of 'Twilight Zone' style thrillers produced by Bryan Brown for Channel Nine Australia. Jennifer has three feature films in development including Grace (a dark, gothic love story set in Tasmania in the 1820s), which won the Prix Du Scenario for unproduced scripts at the Cinema Des Antipodes festival in France. THE BABADOOK is Jennifer's debut feature as writer/director.

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