Jamie studied at St Martins School of Art and the National Film and Television School.

He directs affectionately comic authored films and animations. He has been nominated for BAFTA (best New Director), Broadcast (Best New Director Factual) and Grierson Awards (Best Cinema Documentary)(Best Newcomer) and his first cinematically released feature film ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit' won the ‘Hitchcock D'Argent' prize in the Dinard Film Festival and is nominated for ‘Best Cinema Documentary' in this year's British Independent Film Awards.

Jamie has made documentaries about medievally wooing Swedish Princesses, his love of Breakfast Cereals, a Holiday Around his Bedroom, the MiniGolf world Championships, The Junior Eurovision, The Slowest Ever Swimmer in Olympic history and people who own robot dogs.

He is currently writing his first fiction feature script for Film4 to be made through Warp films.