Jub Clerc
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Jub is a Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman from the Kimberley in WA. A WAAPA graduate, Jub spent many years in theatre before working on shows such as The Circuit 1 & 2, Bran Nue Dae, Mad Bastards, Satellite Boy, Jandamarra’s War, Jasper Jones and Mystery Road S1.
She has wrote and directed shorts Storytime, Music Men, Min Min Light and multiple ICS’s (Indigenous Community Stories – mini docs), documentary Struggling Songlines, episodes of TV series The Heights and Turn Up the Volume. Jub also wrote/directed her chapter Abbreviation of the feature anthology The Turning. Jub has reported/produced for Around the Traps, hosted Mugu Kids for NITV and was a Soprano in Pecan Summer the worlds first Indigenous Opera. Her play The Fever and the Fret debut at Yirra Yaakin won the prestigious 2017 ‘Kate Challis Award’.
Jub’s debut feature film Sweet As won the Blackmagic Design and Innovation award at MIFF 2022, the NETPAC award at TIFF 2022, the Crystal Bear in Generation KPlus at Berlinale 2023, best feature at Maoriland 2023 plus many other International awards and selections. In 2023, Jub directed 3 episodes of the ABC political drama Total Control S3, recently wrapped shooting on a SBS Digital Originals web-series Warm Props and is in pre-production to co-direct Season 4 of ABC drama Mystery Road Origin 2.
