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Bio

JENNA ROSHER

For over twenty years Jenna has produced, directed and filmed a wide variety of social, political and music documentaries for television and film.  A third generation cinematographer, Jenna combines her love of filming with her passion for people and storytelling.  This has given her the opportunity to not only shoot, but also direct a number of high-profile, award-winning projects.

Her work has been featured on Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV+, HULU, HBO, Showtime, PBS, CNN, Nat Geo, MTV, VH1, USA Network, TLC, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, BBC, Sundance Channel, A&E, ESPN, ABC, CBS, NYTimes.com and many more.

In 2005, Jenna worked as a co-cinematographer on Jesus Camp, the award-winning documentary about an evangelical summer camp for kids. The film earned numerous awards including a 2007 Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary.

In 2009, she premiered her feature documentary JUNIOR, a hilarious and heartfelt portrait of a mother and son growing old together. JUNIOR won the Best Documentary prize at the 2009 Woodstock Film Festival and the 2009 Audience Award at Sheffield Docfest in the UK.

Jenna has had the great fortune of collaborating with such talents as RJ Cutler (September Issue/Billie Eilish:The World’s A Little Blurry, MARTHA/Elton John: Untitled), Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp/Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You/12th and Delaware, One of Us), Amy Berg (Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue/An Open Secret/Phoenix Rising), Marina Zenovich (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind / LANCE), Rory Kennedy (Take Every Wave:The Life of Laird Hamilton/Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey into Tomorrow) and Lauren Greenfield (Generation Wealth)

In 2019, Jenna co-produced and filmed Call Your Mother for Comedy Central with Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady and worked as the Director of Photography for Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry. In 2020, she directed an 8-part series for Quibi entitled Unconditional, which follows four unhoused people and their pets living in Los Angeles. And in 2021, she co-directed 4 episodes of Dear… for Apple TV+ which celebrates icons and how they have impacted every day people.

In 2022, Jenna directed episodes 2 and 3 on the Freeform/HULU four-part series Keep This Between Us, which explores sexual abuse in American high schools.

In 2022 & 2023, she was the Director of Photography on Elton John: Untitled for Disney+ and MARTHA, a bio doc on Martha Stewart for Netflix.  

Currently Jenna is directing a 3-part doc series for Netflix.

Jenna is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America.  She is represented by WME.