Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA-nominated Australian director. Her documentary ''

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'' (co-directed with

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) won the 2009 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary in Under One Hour. Her film ''

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'', which was filmed during the

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, won the 2015

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for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival. It premiered internationally at the

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and also screened at

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and received a BAFTA nomination in 2016 for Best Documentary. In 2017 she directed ''

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,'' a collaboration the

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(ACO) with script by Robert Macfarlane, narrated by

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. It screened theatrically in 27 countries and went on to become the highest grossing non- IMAX Australian documentary of all time (, third). It won three

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in 2018. In 2021 Peedom co-directed, with Joseph Nizeti, ''River'', a documentary about rivers with a similar scope and format as ''Mountain''. The film is also written by Macfarlane, narrated by Dafoe, and accompanied by a soundtrack by the ACO. Peedom is married to stills photographer, Mark Rogers. They have two children, Tashi and Luca.

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