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Jack Goessens

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Bio

Jack (he/they) is a UK based writer/director (and high-end drama editor). Jack has been supported by some of the industry’s leading talent development programmes including Berlinale Talents 2023, Channel 4 RI:SE with DANC/Triple C 2022, Cinesud's Talent to Cannes 2022, BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew 2021 and BFI Network Weekender 2019

Jack has received development funding for his debut feature Boifriend from Short Circuit (BFI Network/Screen Scotland). His short film Everyman (2021) won multiple awards - most notably the RTS award for Short Form - and screened at over a dozen BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals around the world. His next short Who I Am Now (2022) was funded by Creative Scotland and LEAP and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2018 he won the Production Attic pitch at the BAFTA qualifying Glasgow Short Film Festival for his short film Bouba & Kiki (2019).

CV

In Development
BOIFRIEND
Feature Film
1st draft available
bombito Productions Writer/Director
Developed through Short Circuit/Screen Scotland
* Winner Cinesud Royal Film Pitch 2022
* Rotterdam International Film Festival Cinemart 2023
Shadowing/2nd Unit
THE RIG Season 2 Wild Mercury/Amazon Shadow Director
Block 2
Director: Alex Holmes
Short Films
WHO I AM NOW (2022)
https://vimeo.com/715193094
Password: wian934
Creative Scotland Produced by Bombito Productions, written by Michael Richardson
* BAFTA qualifying Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022
* BAFTA qualifying Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023
* Official Selection Berlin British Shorts Film Festival 2023
* Official Selection Leeds Queer Film Festival 2023
EVERYMAN (2021)
https://vimeo.com/463890645
Password: venus1922
Scottish Documentary Institute Produced by Bombito Productions
* Winner RTS Scotland 2022 Best Short Form
* Shortlist Grierson 2021 Best Documentary Short
* Winner Best Short Film at BAFTA qualifying SQIFF 2021
* Winner Best Short Film at Euregion Film Festival 2022
* BAFTA qualifying Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021 * BAFTA qualifying BFI London Film Festival 2021
* BAFTA qualifying Frameline Film Festival 2021 * Academy qualifying Bogota Short Film Festival 2021
* Academy qualifying Galway Film Fleadh 2021 * Academy qualifying Sebastopol Film Festival 2021
* BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica 2021 * Academy qualifying Seattle International Film Festival 2022
* BAFTA qualifying Bolton Film Festival 2021 * Academy qualifying St. Kilda Film Festival 2022
* Academy qualifying Interfilm Berlin 2021 * BAFTA qualifying BFI Flare 2022
* Academy qualifying DOC NYC 2021 * Official Selection Berlin British Shorts Film Festival 2022
JUNIPER (2020)
https://vimeo.com/364350123
Supported by Blazing Griffin
BOUBA & KIKI (2019)
https://vimeo.com/332656755
Glasgow Short Film Festival/Production Attic * Winner Glasgow Short Film Festival & Production Attic Pitch 2018
BAFTA qualifying Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
* Official Selection Portobello Film Festival 2019
* Official Selection Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2019
GENDER TWISTER (2014)
https://vimeo.com/99828852
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland * Runner-up Award Greenhorn Young Film Festival 2014
* Runner-up Award 90 Sec Film Competition My First Job In Film with Encounters '17
* Broadcasted on Sky 2019
Music Videos & Broadcast
2019 BBC The Social Online Shorts
(Rain, Home For The Homeless, Expressing Queerness)
2016-17 STV VT's for broadcast and online
2014 - 2016 Parloscope Records Music Promos
(Freedom, Seeing Through the Trees, Modern Age)
Industry - Labs & Training
2023 Berlinale Talents
2023 Screencraft Works Spring 2023 Cross-Border Mentoring Programme
2023 Rotterdam International Film Festival Cinemart | Boifriend (feature)
2021 - Present Short Circuit First Features Development | Boifriend (feature)
2022 Winner Scottish RTS Award | Everyman
2022 Channel 4 RI:SE with Danc/Triple C
2022 Cinesud Film Talents to Cannes
2021 BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew | mentor Iain Canning
2019 BFI Network Weekender | focus on women, non-binary and transgender filmmakers
2011 - 2014 Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | BA Digital Film & Television
2009 - 2011 Academie Genk | Advanced level creative writing and literature