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Jamieson Pearce is an award-winning writer and director whose short films have played around the world. 

After working as an English teacher in Spain, Jamieson changed tack to study Directing at the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney. Straight out of film school, he was selected to direct a short film for Open Channel’s ‘Raw Nerve’ initiative and then worked as a Director’s Attachment to showrunner Peter Duncan on a season of the ABC Series Rake. 

He adapted a short story by celebrated Australian author Christos Tsiolkas to make his short film Adult which screened at the prestigious South by SouthWest Film Festival in 2017 and went on to play over twenty festivals around the world. Following this success, he won a Lexus Short Film Fellowship from Sydney Film Festival to make Strangers. With this film, he participated in Melbourne International Film Festival’s Accelerator Lab and the film has won a slew of prizes locally and internationally. His latest short, 'Thomas Rides in an Ambulance’, premiered at Flickerfest in 2022. 

He is currently developing a feature film and a mini-series.