Jess Search was a UK film producer and co-founder of Doc Society – a non-profit organization that started in 2005. The company produces and funds documentaries form around the world.

She contributed to numerous documentaries including While We Watched, Dirty Wars, Welcome to Chechnya, Risk, The Yes Men Fix the World, The End of The Line, F… This Job, Unknown White Male, and more.

Search died on July 31, 2023, from brain tumor at age 54.

“Yesterday morning, our dear Jess Search died peacefully in London, England, from brain cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her life, Beadie Finzi, their children, Ella and Ben, and friends. As a fierce supporter of independent artists and co-founder of Doc Society, Jess spent the weeks following her diagnosis focused on her passions laid out in her recent announcement, No Time Like the Present,” an official statement from Doc Society read.

“Her greatest wish was to continue to secure the Doc Society mission of unleashing the transformational power  of documentary film to address the two critical intertwined issues of climate change and democracies in crisis,” the statement added.