COMMISSIONING EDITOR, NITV

Jade has worked in the broadcast sector for over a decade on a broad range of content from Lifestyle and Factual to Sport, programs include, The Message Stick (ABC TV), The New Inventors Show (ABC TV) , 480 Series (ABC TV), Colour Theory 3 (NITV), Cook’n  at Jacko’s (NITV), The Barefoot Rugby League Show (NITV), The Marngrook Footy Show (NITV) and live sporting events.

Most recently, Jade has developed a number of projects for NITV as the channel’s Commissioning Editor. Broadcasting free-to-air as part of the SBS Network, NITV provided an essential platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, delivering unique and often untold stories for all Australians.

Currently at NITV Jade has commissioned the Songlines on Screen initiative Season 1 & 2 which is a collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV, the content represent Aboriginal people’s ongoing connection to land and culture as told throughout time by the way of creation stories, songs and dance. Servant or Slave; a feature length documentary on the injustice of Aboriginal women forced into servitude as the result of the White Australia Policy. Jade commissions across genre including Lifestyle/Light Entertainment content for the network with programs such as Kriol Kitchen, On Country Kitchen, the very funny and hauntingly inspired observational documentary series Shadow Trackers, which investigates Indigenous mythology and urban societal legends and drama shorts from the northern region of Australia.