Jane Eakin

Jane Eakin commenced her career in the Australian Film Industry in 1992. After working her way up to directing news and sport programs in regional television, she moved to Sydney and continued on to become the youngest creative director for Network Ten, creating their iconic "seriously ten" image campaign. After seven years of award-winning branding work, she moved into commercial directing, at the same time creating award winning shorts (Locked up, 101 Cupcakes and Touch) and an award-winning comedy web-series (Bent101). She has shadow directed under Peter Andrikidis (Emerald Falls) and Chris Martin-Jones (Packed to the Rafters) and directed an episode of StreetSmart for CJZ under Damien Davis. As well as directing, she has post produced on the biggest reality shows in Australia including MAFS, Survivor and Gogglebox. She has studied at both AFTRS and NIDA and was named a director to watch by ADG and Create NSW in 2019.