Jub Clerc

Jub is a Nyul Nyul/Djugan-Yawuru filmmaker from the Kimberley in Western Australia whose storytelling is grounded in community, culture and lived experience.

Her debut feature SWEET AS premiered to international acclaim, winning the Blackmagic Design and Innovation Award at MIFF 2022, the NETPAC Award at TIFF 2022 and the Crystal Bear for Generation KPlus at Berlinale 2023, as well as Best Feature at Māoriland 2023, alongside numerous other international awards and selections.

Jub has written and directed the shorts STORYTIME, MUSIC MEN and MIN MIN LIGHT, multiple Indigenous Community Stories (ICS) mini-documentaries, and the documentary STRUGGLING SONGLINES. She also wrote and directed her chapter ABBREVIATION for the feature anthology THE TURNING, and has directed episodes of THE HEIGHTS, TURN UP THE VOLUME, TOTAL CONTROL S3 and MYSTERY ROAD ORIGIN 2. She created her first web series WARM PROPS.

Jub’s credits also include THE CIRCUIT 1 & 2, BRAN NUE DAE, MAD BASTARDS, SATELLITE BOY, JANDAMARRA’S WAR, JASPER JONES and MYSTERY RD S1. She has reported and produced for AROUND THE TRAPS and hosted MUGU KIDS for NITV.

Jub is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She spent many years working in theatre before transitioning into film and television, and performed as a soprano in PECAN SUMMER, the world’s first Indigenous opera. Her stage play THE FEVER AND THE FRET debuted at Yirra Yaakin and won the prestigious 2017 Kate Challis Award.