Academy Award winner, Hollywood-based filmmaker, screen writer and producer.

JANE CAMPION's Peel won the Golden Palm award at the 1986 Cannes film festival and she is one of only four women ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Her films as director include In the Cut starring Meg Ryan (2003) and Bright Star (2009) starring Ben Wishaw and Abbie Cornish, which received 15 nominations. She was nominated for best director and won an Oscar for best screenplay for The Piano (1993). She produced Soft Fruit (2000) and Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006), which won best documentary film awards at numerous prestigious film festivals.

She was President of the Jury at 12th Mumbai Film Festival (21 > 28/10/2010) a first-ever for any film festival in India: its unprecedented power roster of an all-women jury.