Filmmaker Jolyon Hoff returned to Australia in 2020 after spending the last 15 years living and working in Nigeria, Indonesia, Nepal, and Washington DC.
His feature documentary, Watandar, My Countryman, premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival 2022 and was nominated for a Screen Producers Australia award for Feature Documentary Of The Year. Previous projects include The Staging Post, following a refugee community in Indonesia (Highly Commended for ‘Best Stand-Alone Documentary’ by the Australian Directors’ Guild), Searching For Michael Peterson, about a 70s schizophrenic surfing legend, Morrowind Babies, inside revered computer game company Bethesda Softworks, and Aceh – Ten Years After the Tsunami for USAID, now on permanent display at the Aceh Tsunami Museum. Jolyon is committed to telling stories which bring the developing and developed worlds together.
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