Hipster was set up by Jo Lewis in 2018 as a boutique production company with a desire to tell the most compelling stories in the most eye-catching way. Beautifully crafted, bold and original. Hipster films are able to stand out in a crowd.

ABOUT JO LEWIS — PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Jo is an award-winning writer and director whose films have played at BAFTA and BIFA qualifying international film festivals all over the world. Her recent adaption of a DH Lawrence short story The Rocking Horse Winner has screened at over 40 film festivals, winning 8 awards. Jo recently directed the short film Whisper staring Imogen Doel (Channel 4 MISFITS) which premiered in Paris at PAMA (Winner Best Actress), and screened at London Short FF, Rhodes Island FF, East End FF, Soho International NY (nominated Best World Short), Hollywood Independent Reel FF (winner Best Short Film) and ScreamFest LA. Jo has just completed the observational documentary #sugarwater following the first ever performance of a Deaf and disabled theatre company (Graeae) at the National Theatre which premiered at the St Louis International Film Festival (named as one of 25 key films) and screened recently at The Genesis Cinema for World Disability Day.

Jo is directing a forthcoming VR feature project Hopeland with Ben Okri and is slated to direct the feature films Beach Boy and Those Promises Made with her company Hipster Films. Jo has worked on International Feature Length documentary co-productions for The Discovery Channel and her film production work includes films by Mike Leigh, Anthony Minghella, Ridley Scott and Andrea Arnold’s OSCAR winning short film WASP. Jo is a member of Cinesisters London and Film Fatales New York and is part of BAFTA CREW x BFI NETWORK. Jo has an MA in Text and Performance Studies from RADA. Her TV work includes Drama for BBC, Channel 5 and Production work for TALKBACK (Topical Comedy) Spun Gold, Endemol and IWC.