Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Jeffs is also the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film Rain (2001). Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner John Toon, cinematographer of Sunshine Cleaning and her other films. Descripti...
Complete Filmography
A Mistake
2024
Director, Producer, Screenplay
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to clos...
Sunshine Cleaning
2008
Director
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuiti...
Sylvia
2003
Director
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Rain
2001
Writer, Director
Janey is on vacation with her family at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand. Her parents, Ed and Kate, are on the verge of div...
Stroke
1993
Director, Writer, Editor
Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of s...
Ruby and Rata
1990
Assistant Editor
Ruby, an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into...