Filming in the Sahara Desert

Jeanie Davison is an award-winning TV producer and filmmaker with a global track record in documentaries, travel and adventure content, news, current affairs, factual entertainment and digital media. Her work spans major broadcasters and streamers including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic, Netflix, ABC Australia and TVNZ.

Her career has taken her to remote and extraordinary places – from war zones and refugee camps to deserts, jungles and mountain regions – filming everything from celebrity interviews to stories with refugee communities in Africa.

Jeanie’s worn many hats: Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Scriptwriter and Head of Development across leading production companies in the UK, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. She’s also been a long-standing member of BAFTA and a featured speaker at top industry events like Realscreen, BANFF, MIPCOM, Sundance and the Australian International Documentary Conference.

As a consultant and content creator, she’s worked with UNICEF UK, Amnesty International and Comic Relief, producing high-impact campaigns and documentaries such as Children of War (Channel 4) and The Boy On The Bicycle for the BBC. She holds UN Advanced Security certification for work in challenging environments.

From 2018–2021, she was an executive at Screen Australia, overseeing development of a wide range of documentary and digital projects. She later led industry programs at Screenworks and AFTRS, supporting filmmakers in regional and remote Australia and building industry partnerships on filmmaking initiatives and opportunities for emerging creatives.

Jeanie is now based in Melbourne where she heads up Business Development at Screen Careers, Australia’s only national training and support organisation for film and TV crew.