I am a writer and producer working across audio, podcasts and social & enviro impact projects.

I’ve produced podcasts for CSIRO, Sydney Opera House, the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the Climate Council, Greenpeace, Red Bull, Audible and more as a Senior Producer with Sydney-based production company Audiocraft, and as an independent freelancer. I was script editor & producer for Laura Nagy’s tender ASMR memoir Pillow Talk (Audible/Easy Tiger), which won the 2022 gold Rose D’Or for Audio Entertainment, Best Sex & Relationships Podcast at the 2022 Australian Podcast Awards, was a finalist for Best Serialised Content in the 2023 Third Coast Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, and landed us in Reykjavik for the IFC Audiodocs Conference in 2023. In 2019 I wrote, produced and sound designed musical fiction podcast Slaughterhouse Road, and am the writer/host/producer Flirties, an Audiocraft original fiction podcast which has been nominated for Best Original Series at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. My latest independent podcast Seaweed People was launched in March 2024, featuring conversations with researchers and leaders in marine science and conservation.

In the branded space, I’ve worked with the team at The Ethics Centre to create FODI: The In Between during lockdowns, turning their Festival of Dangerous Ideas into an audio experience that featured conversations with thinkers like Stephen Fry, Naomi Klein, Tyson Yunkaporta and Roxane Gay, alongside curated and original sound art. I’m particularly proud of Heaps Better - a 2020 collaboration with Greenpeace utilising their research to create a podcast to inspire collective climate action as an antidote to anxiety - which I co-created/co-hosted with Ash Berdebes, edited and sound designed.

My radio documentary work has taken me from topping up ice in a DIY backyard cryogenics shed in Colorado to looking for white sharks in South Africa’s False Bay, and have been broadcast/podcast through Audible, ABC RN, 2SER, FBi Radio and Nova Entertainment, as well as soundscapes broadcast internationally with French project Espaces Sonores.

Outside of audio, I was Co-Founder/Co-Director of Freshflix Film Festival from 2016 - 2022, overseeing 10 short film festival seasons with events across Sydney, Wollongong, San Francisco and LA. We made pop-up cinemas in warehouses and breweries, secret feasts, collaborations with electronic musicians and experimental films, and ran two editions of the Freshflix Emerging Filmmakers Conference with Vivid Sydney. I learnt how to turn research into impactful communications projects as Campaign Manager for Bangkok-based Love Frankie, overseeing the Australian arm of YouTube’s Creators For Change program, as well as coordinating DIGI Engage 2020 - a 2-day conference hosted by government and big tech to combat online extremism and hate speech. And I learnt how to realise big dreams with small budgets designing immersive and interactive spaces alongside set design and theatrical direction for ten years of Secret Garden music and arts festival.

I really like seaweed, ocean swims and listening to bugs and birds. I am currently studying a Master of Marine Science and Management with SCU, which I expect to complete 2023. I am interested in working in environmental communications, reef restoration, acoustic ecology, and creative narrative-driven storytelling for social and environmental impact.

Get in touch ~ hello@jessica-hamilton.com

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