Night Watch is Jazz and Jaya, a creative & producing team. We have been working in the trenches
together for years. With our powers combined, we came together under Night Watch to start creating
our own work. Night Watch focuses on creating “gentle genre” (a term we made up) where we take
certain elements of genres that we like and offer it up on a tasty plate of absurdity and charm.
Night Watch is about having your mates back in amongst the grind of the creative industries.
It’s about allowing yourself to take a beat, a moment, to catch up on sleep or eat a proper
meal, or hug your mum because you know your mate is on the night watch. Everything won’t fall
apart if you tap out for a minute. It’s important to us that we check in and honor each other,
not just as colleagues but also as humans.
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Jaya Beach-Robertson is a filmmaker whose work embraces the weird, magical, and bizarre aspects of life. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, she grew up in Whakatū, after moving from Seattle at age nine. Her self-funded web series PSUSY debuted at the New Orleans Film Festival, with its second season winning Best Web Series at the Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2022, she directed the documentary series Point of View for RNZ and was the showrunner’s assistant on HBO Max’s Our Flag Means Death. She was also selected for DEGANZ’s Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator and Script to Screen’s Series Bootcamp in 2023. Jaya approaches filmmaking with unwavering curiosity about human behavior and an artistic vision that proves even the most batshit ideas can carry profound meaning.
Other Works
P.O.V. (series)
PSUSY (series)
T.I.P. (short)
Jazz dos Santos is a producer born and raised in Tūranganui-A-Kiwa, and now calls Tāmaki Makaurau home. Jazz’s production highlights include Lao Lao Lao Le, directed by Julie Zhu, which won three awards, including “Best Film,” at the 2023 Show Me Shorts Film Festival. In 2024, she project-managed Day One’s social content and co-produced Able’s youth documentary series Sight Unseen, set for release in 2025. She also served as festival manager for Piki Films’ latest feature releases, We Were Dangerous and The Mountain. Additionally, Jazz has been on the production team for New Zealand episodes of House Hunters International since 2022, a role that has taken her around the country.
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