An English screenwriter, producer, and film director, born on September 18, 1985, in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. She became interested in filmmaking as a child and took a five-day training course with the Oxford Film and Video Makers at the age of sixteen. She began her career by directing several short films and made her feature-film directorial debut in Lady Godiva (2008). Jewson was awarded the Women of the Future Award for Arts, Media, and Culture. She directed Born of War (2014) and Close (2019).