Jennifer Kent worked extensively as an actor in Australia before establishing her career as a writer-director. The Babadook premiered at Sundance in 2014, and received over 100 nominations and awards internationally. It is now being re-released for its 10th anniversary and is currently in theaters again. Jennifer’s second film The Nightingale won the Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni award at Venice Film Festival in 2018, as well as winning five Australian Academy (AACTA) Awards. Recently, she wrote and directed “The Murmuring,” an episode of the acclaimed Netflix anthology Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. She has three feature films in development as well as two TV series.
