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I DID THAT Guest Judge: Jessie Zinn

IDIDTHAT JUDGE JESSIE ZINN DIRECTOR BIOSCOPE FILMS SOUTH AFRICA JUDGE'S BIO Jessie Zinn is a South African film director working across commercials, documentary and narrative film. With an [...]

Amisha Zanetti2026-08-14T13:00:24+02:00August 14th, 2026|Categories: IDIDTHAT JUDGE|Tags: Bioscope Films, Jessie Zinn|

Craft Award Results: May 2026

This month’s IDIDTHAT.co Craft Awards were judged by Jabulani Sigege, Group Executive Creative Director at Machine_ and Jessie Zinn, Director at Bioscope Films. Thank you kindly legends for your time and expertise on this. And wow, there was a lot of work. We love seeing the industry producing at this volume. Let’s keep going! Massive congratulations Zee Ntuli from Darling Films on taking home Best in Craft for your work on KFC.

Amisha Zanetti2026-06-10T15:33:42+02:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: IDIDTHAT Craft Awards|Tags: 7 Films, Bioscope Films, Darling Films, Eyeforce, Jabulani Sigege, Jessie Zinn, Katlego Baaitse, Lourens van Rensburg, Machine_, Spitfire Films, Zee Ntuli|

Craft Award Results: January 2025

This month’s IDIDTHAT.co Craft Awards were judged by Verona Meyer, ECD at M&C Saatchi Abel and Mzonke Maloney, Director at Carbon Films. Congrats Directors, Thina Zibi and Thea Small, as well as DOP Josh Levi for your Best in Craft wins this month!

Amisha Zanetti2025-03-03T08:56:27+02:00February 6th, 2025|Categories: IDIDTHAT Craft Awards, Spitfire Editorial|Tags: Bioscope Films, Carbon Films, Darling Films, Jessie Zinn, Josh Levi, M&C Saatchi Abel, Mzonke Maloney, Thea Small, Thina Zibi, Triple Story Content, Verona Meyer|

Jessie Zinn joins Bioscope Films, releases impeccably crafted global brand film for Sonnenglas

Bioscope Films officially welcomes director Jessie Zinn, fresh off her IDIDTHAT Best of Craft win for Sonnenglas. Her first job with Bioscope. The spot was shot exclusively at dusk and dawn over an eight-day journey across South Africa and Eswatini, capturing the beauty of light for the solar brand.

Amisha Zanetti2024-11-12T14:54:35+02:00November 12th, 2024|Categories: Bioscope Editorial, Editorial|Tags: Bioscope Films, Jessie Zinn|

Directors on Directors | Karien Cherry and Jessie Zinn

Giant Films have announced the signing of award-winning documentary filmmaker Jessie Zinn for commercial representation. Jessie may be new to the commercial world but she is not new to filmmaking by any means – her latest documentary ‘Drummies’ is a short film that has just been acquired by the New Yorker (yes, the actual New Yorker!). One of South Africa’s accomplished commercial directors and fellow Giant, Karien Cherry, talks to Jessie about the film, the pursuit of truth and how (spoiler alert) their fear of failure drives them to do great work.

admin2022-09-22T15:42:04+02:00September 22nd, 2022|Categories: Editorial, Giant Films Editorial|Tags: Giant Films, Jessie Zinn, Karien Cherry|