Jennifer Alphonse

Jennifer Alphonse is an International Award winning Writer, Filmmaker, documentary photographer, Founder and CEO at Jen Productions. Jennifer is the first Asian female filmmaker to have gone to Afghanistan to shoot a feature film, "Habeeb" which is currently under completion. An MBA graduate who did her Film Appreciation Course in India's prestigious Film School FTII, Pune. She believes that the visual medium is the most influential medium and pursues telling visual stories in different formats. She strikes a perfect balance between Fiction and non fiction work. Her first Short fiction film "Kachra" won her 3 prestigious Golden Nandi State Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Child Actor along with several other International Awards. Her second short film "Strangers" was selected at the Cannes Short Film Corner and went on to win more than 17 international awards in various categories, and in 2016 her first documentary film "The Take Over" also got screened at the Cannes Festival short film corner segment and went on to win more than 12 International awards. She has done several Ads, commercials, documentary films, music video and short films. For her non fiction work she travels extensively searching for endangered indigenous cultures, photographs and documents their traditions, age old customs from her country (India). Her years of documentation to raise awareness about them has resulted in a first of its kind documentary featurette "Nagoba Jathara" which was screened at various International Film Festivals and won many awards across the globe. Her recent Documentary film is "Gussadi, - Celebration of being God". while working for this documentary film, Jennifer also collected hundreds of photographs, and published it as a first of its kind tribal based coffee table book in India, called "Gussadi - Celebration of Being God"which is now available on amazon. The Proceeds from the book goes back to these tribes in a hope that it will help them in someway to retain their culture.