Tag: Jess Search
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Documentary Community Pays Tribute to Jess Search, ‘Virunga’ Producer and Co-Founder of Doc Society: She ‘Defined Being a Luminary’
Messages have been pouring in to pay tribute to Jess Search, producer and co-founder of U.K.’s Doc Society, who died Monday from brain cancer at the age of 54.Search was a founding director of Doc Society, the mission of which is to “unleash the transformational power of documentary film to address the two critical and…
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Documentary producer Jess Search dies at 54
Tributes paid to influential co-founder of Doc Society, who ‘lived a life of purpose on her own terms’The influential documentary producer Jess Search, who co-founded the non-profit Doc Society organisation, has died of brain cancer at the age of 54.She was involved in hundreds of projects including the overfishing documentary The End of the Line,…
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Jess Search, Doc Society Co-Founder, Remembered by Film Community
Jess Search, the influential documentary producer and co-founder of the U.K. Doc Society, has died at age 54 after a battle with brain cancer. She passed on July 31 after being diagnosed with cancer in June.Nearly two decades ago, Search co-founded the non-profit Doc Society, which since 2005 has been dedicated to funding documentaries globally.…