Jazz Gowans
Creative Director & Executive Producer
Jazz is an award-winning creative leader and executive producer who ran Transparent Television (part of the global Argonon Group) for over 15 years. Jazz has worked with all the major networks and has a proven skill and tenacity for popular factual with programmes currently showing in over 100 countries worldwide.
Recently named one of TV Collective’s top 50 diverse leaders in television Jazz is a BAFTA judge and chairs many awards juries/committees for BAFTA, RTS, Griersons and Broadcast. She is on the Executive Board of Create Central and is passionate about future proofing the creative sector industries. Before TV, Jazz spent over a decade as a celebrity/features journalist, working for major British national newspapers and several high-end magazines, including Elle, The Face, The Guardian and Vogue.
Her commissions include: My Daughter Amy (Winehouse) included in Asif Kapadia’s BAFTA and Oscar winning film AMY; Queens of Pop: Aretha to Whitney; Queer as Old Folk; The Band Aid Story (exclusives with Bob Geldof, Bono, Quincy Jones, Boy George and many others); Britain's Forgotten Army with Joanna Lumley for Channel 4; ITV’s MOBOs: Paving the Way; BBC2’s Restoration Roadshow; BBC iPlayer’s hit Supercar Superfam; Botched Up Bodies (with spin off series) Hidden History of Britain with Michael Portillo and Portillo’s Empire Journey for C5.