Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Greer Simpkin.
[6] He went to work with Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in Alice Springs for two years,[1] where he was manager in around 1997.
Jowsey ran the video section and made many friends and lifelong connections in the industry, including Erica Glynn, Steven McGregor, Danielle MacLean, Warwick Thornton,[1] Rachel Perkins, and many others, who continue to collaborate.
[9] When working at the ABC, Jowsey commissioned a film by Indigenous writer and director Ivan Sen called Beneath Clouds (released in 2002), which was very successful.
Before colonisation, Aboriginal people from all over SEQ would gather for a big festival every three years, when the Bunya pine fruited.
The other film was Sen's film Toomelah, a documentary about the former Aboriginal mission called Toomelah in northern New South Wales, where Sen's family grew up, which was screened at Un Certain Regard at Cannes[1] as well as garnering the Cultural Diversity Award under the Patronage of UNESCO at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
[10] Sen and Jowsey made their first big hit with Mystery Road, released in 2013, from which arose a television series of the same name from 2018 onwards.
[7] Greer Simpkin, also a New Zealander,[8] earned a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (Creative Industries) from AFTRS in 2010.
[8] As of 2022[update], Jowsey continues to run Bunya Productions along with Sen and Simpkin,[1] co-managing director and head of television.