JDR Screen is a collaborative production company dedicated to making films which are above all entertaining, of high quality and sometimes with serious intent. The company was established by Julia de Roeper on returning to the film industry after five years as Director of Industry Development at the South Australian Film Corporation and a period of study at the University of South Australia.

With a documentary commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival as the new company’s first completed film (Magic Harvest, 2011) and three projects fully developed and currently financing, JDR Screen moved into the brilliant new Adelaide Studios in August 2011.

Current focus is on documentary and children’s programs, with some drama projects in very early development. Julia de Roeper variously works as producer, co-producer, executive producer and/or mentor.

We are excited to be collaborating on projects with a number of other producers and production companies including Michael Bourchier (Blink Films and Freehand Television), Christo Hird (Dartmouth Films, UK), Claire Harris (Porthmeor Productions), Jeni Lee (Carousel Media), Ben Pederick (Goodmorningbeautiful Films), Veronica Sive (Emergint Media) and Sarah Wishart.

JDR Screen also produces Research Digidocs, short (3-5min.) documentary films presenting key academic research findings in everyday language.

• Julia de Roeper
• Producer and CEO, JDR Screen

With a background in journalism and arts administration, Julia de Roeper began working in television in the early 90s and produced the pioneering food travel series A Taste of Africa which screened on ABC, SBS and Channel 4 in 1994.

She later spent five years as Director of Industry Development with the South Australian Film Corporation, completed a PhD on narrative and chaired Adelaide’s Media Resource Centre from 2000-2005 before returning to independent production in 2008.

She recently delivered the short documentary Magic Harvest, commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival, and has a number of projects in development and financing. She is currently a member of the ACT Screen Investment Fund Committee and a Director of the Institute of Backyard Studies (www.ibys.org).