Jack is a Dutch born, UK based writer/director and editor.  

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In 2018 Jack won the Glasgow Short Film Festival Production Attic pitch with his film, Bouba & Kiki (2019), which premiered as part of GSFF's BAFTA qualifying competition the following year. That same year Jack was selected for the prestigious BFI Network Weekender.

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His short film Everyman (2021) was commissioned through the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap programme and won multiple awards including but not limited to an RTS award win and a Grierson Award shortlisting. It screened at over a dozen BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals around the world. He was invited by Dutch talent development organisation Cinesud to participate with Everyman in their annual Talent to Cannes programme. His next short 'Who I Am Now' was funded by Creative Scotland and LEAP and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. 

Jack was selected for the BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew 2021 mentorship programme and mentored by Oscar winning producer Iain Canning. He's participating in Berlinale Talents 2023.

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Jack is developing their first feature, Boifriend, as writer-director and has received early and further feature development funding for this through Short Circuit (the Scottish arm of BFI Network) and additional development support through Cinesud's career lab and from winning the Cinesud Royal Film Pitch.​ They're presenting Boifriend at Rotterdam Film Festival's Cinemart in 2023.

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Day to day Jack works as an editor cutting high-end drama such as Outlander and Netflix’ The Fuck it Bucket. He was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in 2022 for a film he edited called ‘Groom’.