| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Jane I. Wells | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Documentary filmmaker Activist |
Jane I. Wells is a documentary filmmaker and activist whose films focus on global human rights and social justice issues.[1] She has produced over 40 short films including the award-winning shorts I'm a Victim, Not a Criminal (2010), Lost Hope (2012) and Native Silence (2013).[2] She is also a producer of the feature documentary films The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), Tricked (2013), A Different American Dream (2016), and Lost in Lebanon (2017).
In 2005 Wells became involved with The Devil Came on Horseback a feature-length documentary about the genocide in Darfur.[3] Ultimately she became a producer of the film, travelling to Darfur with her son to bear witness to the state of affairs.
In 2007, she founded 3 Generations, a non-profit organization that uses film to document stories of witness to crimes against humanity, through documentary film, oral history, witness testimony and creative writing.[4] Wells' articles on genocide and human rights have appeared in British Vogue,[5] Diversion[6] and Weston.[7] She is a regular guest blogger on the Huffington Post and the HUB.[8]
Wells has said that making films that document crimes against humanity is “deeply connected to the family heritage”.[1] Her father, Sidney Bernstein, filmed the liberation of concentration camps at the end of World War II.[9] Wells has said that it was her father's greatest regret that the footage was never shown publicly, as he hoped it would serve as evidence for mankind of these atrocities.[1]