Poor Dog Films makes current affairs and documentary films with heart.
Established by journalist and filmmaker Jenny Evans, our aim is to tell well the kinds of stories you don't often get to hear and our focus is the people (and the dogs) within them*
Television and Film
Jenny trained as a journalist at City University.
Specialising both in investigative work and in narrative filmmaking, she has spent equal parts of her career making documentary singles with a journalistic focus, such as for Dispatches, Cutting Edge, Unreported World, Panorama, and narrative series, such as Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist for Nat Geo.
Investigative films she developed, produced and directed, 'Undercover: Inside the Priory' for Channel 4's Dispatches and 'Undercover: Life and Death in a Homeless Hotel', were both RTS nominated.
Jenny produced and directed narrative single, 'Rich Dog, Poor Dog', for Channel 4's documentaries department, which takes a look at the wealth gap via dogs and their owners and remains on All4.
She has recently worked as a development executive for Poor Dog Films, Indefinite Films, Hillary Clinton's HiddenLight, Atomic Films and David Modell Productions, across multiple scripted and unscripted projects. A drama series she co-created and will executive produce is in development with Eleventh Hour Films.
As a documentary maker, Jenny has worked in the US, South America, South East Asia, India and Eastern Europe as well as in the UK. She is skilled at making links with those considered difficult to reach, or at a vulnerable moment in their lives, such as with bereaved families, retired cops. criminal gangs and those in 'super-max' prisons in the States.
Writing
In 2016, Jenny wrote an article for Standard Issue magazine about the death of her brother on what would have been his 40th birthday.
In 2020, she ghost-wrote two articles for a survivor of sexual violence, detailing her experiences with the criminal justice system. The first, 'Time to Complain' was published by the Centre for Women's Justice. The second, 'Survivors of Sexual Violence, You Are Not Alone' was published by Byline Times.
In 2021, Jenny ghost-wrote an article for a source whose allegations of sexual assault by a celebrity were leaked to the press by the Metropolitan Police.
In 2023, Jenny was commissioned by Little, Brown. part of the Hatchette Group, to write a memoir, with focus on the way a particular story she investigated began to intersect with her private life. Publication is set for July 2025.
Studying
In 2021, Jenny completed a law degree. She will finish the next phase of solicitor training, the Legal Practice Course (LPC), in 2024.
*other animals' perspectives also considered very interesting