Jocelyn Pederick

From a childhood fascination with media and image making, and an emerging passion for marginal stories, Jos has become one of South East Asia's leading indigenous media producers and a champion of first person story telling from a non first world point of view. Founder of ‘Forest Mountain Voices’, the first indigenous media association in Cambodia, Jos has for the last 3 years applied skills gained over 6 years of working in commercial and educational film and television, to train indigenous tribe people to make films about themselves and their own culture. Through this they have found voices locally and internationally including screenings at the U.N foyer in New York, Oxford Human rights film festival and Dreaming Festival, Australia.

Jos’s films have told stories of human trafficking, poverty, indigenous people's rights, environmental rights and the impacts of development. Working in a remote areas she has learnt to produce media for mainstream audiences using limited means and within challenging environments. These include dust storms, monsoonal rain, intermittent power surges, and in areas with multiple languages.

In 2008 Jos shared the Best Film award at the Cambodian Environmental Film Festival for a short version of a feature documentary dealing with Prey Lang Forest.

Jos is determined to grow as a filmmaker through work that captures people telling their own stories.