Penny Jope (Producer / Co-Writer)

Penny Jope graduated with a Bachelor of Media Studies from Melbourne’s La Trobe University in 2002. Her first short documentary, Drive: Making Regional News, won an ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) award for best tertiary documentary. After graduating, she moved to Sydney and started collaborating with Verena Thomas on projects such as the award-winning short documentary Unfinished Business (Winner, Art of Documentary Canberra and ReelLife Sydney, 2003). Recently Penny was unit manager on the TV series MythBusters for Discovery Channel and Researcher on Taboo for National Geographic. She is currently working for the Channel Nine travel program Get Away. Papa Bilong Chimbu is the first long-form documentary she has produced.