Bio

Jaydn Ray Gosselin is a Brooklyn based French-Australian filmmaker who works at the intersection of art and advocacy. He is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of This Machine Media, a multidisciplinary production company dedicated to sparking civic engagement through non-fiction storytelling. He is interested in how histories, memories, and traumas are embedded in community spaces, hidden sanctuaries, and built environments.

Jaydn's productions have been featured in The Australian Book Review, New York Magazine’s The Cut, openDemocracy, and New York Daily News. His upcoming documentary on the cruel, secret architecture of Australia's refugee detention, “Searching for Aramsayesh Gah,” is executive produced by the Academy Award-nominated team at Field of Vision. It is supported by Doc Society, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, the Ads-Up Refugee Network, and over 900 donors. His documentary, "Safe Space," was named a finalist for the 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Short Film Challenge.

Jaydn is currently an Impact & Engagement Fellow at Doc Society and the Australian International Documentary Conference; a Doc.Lab.Interact Fellow with Anagram, Film Victoria, and AIDC; and a Development Studio Fellow at the NYU Production Lab. He holds a BFA in Film & Television from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

He resides on Lenape land in New York and was raised on Gadigal land of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the place we now call Sydney.