James Napier Robertson

Born in Welling­ton, New Zealand, he direct­ed in 2009 his first fea­ture film I’m Not Har­ry Jen­son. His sec­ond fea­ture, The Dark Horse, won Best Pic­ture, Best Direc­tor, Best Screen­play, Best Actor, Best Sup­port­ing Actor and Best Score at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards. In 2018, he wrote and direct­ed two episodes of Aus­tralian mini-series Romper Stom­per, then worked on the BBC mini-series The Lumi­nar­ies (2019). Joi­ka, based on the true sto­ry of Joy Wom­ack, is his fourth fea­ture film.