Jess Charlton

Movies

Raids
Director of Photography
Based on the treatment of Pacific Island families during the New Zealand Dawn Raids of the 1970’s, this short is an intimate look into a police raid, as told through the eyes of a young girl Losa and her father Lupematasila.
Flunk: The Exchange
Director of Photography
Sabina and Esther's relationship is pushed to breaking point when international exchange student Annie comes to stay.
That Which Is to Come Is Just a Promise
Camera Operator
In the course of a long, slow take over Funafuti, both drought and floods appear in a constant uninterrupted rhythm. The state of flux between both type of events is reflected in the places and actions of the inhabitants making the island’s extremes seem familiar: the air is riven with waiting and suspension. The island of Funafuti, in the archipelago of Tuvalu, for some years now has become the stage for a unique phenomenon. Due to the unnatural warming of the sea, saltwater seeps into the subsoil bubbling up through the porous terrain provoking floods which put the future of life on this island at risk.
Existence
Director of Photography
Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.