Jacqueline van Meygaarden

Director/Producer, Mycelium Media Colab
 

Biography

An experienced producer and director, Jacqueline has 20 years of experience as a storyteller, first touring internationally with multimedia feminist visual theatre, then moved over to non-fiction filmmaking to create impactful stories reaching wider audiences. She has spent over 15 years developing documentary content about climate change, environmental justice and regeneration, and has worked in southern Africa, Cambodia and Madagascar.

Jacqueline was awarded the Commonwealth Vision Award (2007), co-curated an international visual theatre festival, Out the Box (2008-2011), produced factual content for the national broadcaster in South Africa, and produced climate justice campaign content for 350.org in Africa & Europe (2019).

She is currently co-producing and directing on HOTSPOT Climate Series, a 6-part documentary series profiling climate justice activists in five Southern African countries.