Jacqueline Turnure

Sydneysider, Jackie Turnure is a freelance writer/director experienced in script editing feature length and short screenplays. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communications) from Sydney College of the Arts and her Master of Fine Arts (Film Production) from San Francisco State University.

Jackie has written and directed eight short films and videos that have won awards and screened all over the world. She spent nine years in the USA teaching screenwriting at New York University, Hunter College and the Academy of Arts College, San Francisco. Since returning to Sydney she has been lecturing part time at AFTRS, was an industry mentor at the NSW Film and Television Office's Indigenous Writers Workshop, and gave a workshop on Alternative Narratives for the Australian Writer's Guild.

Jackie works as a script editor and assessor for NSWFTO, AFC, and independent producers on feature films, animated television series and animated games. She recently completed story producing and writing 3 episodes on Deadly, an animated TV series based on the books by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman for SLR Productions. Jackie is currently script editing and voice directing Stolen Life, an animated feature produced in Machinima, written and produced by Peter Rasmussen.