Film director and producer Jez Lewis from Suffolk doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects – in fact he tackles them head on. His award-winning 2010 documentary film Shed Your Tears and Walk Away is about the friends he grew up with in West Yorkshire dying of suicide and drugs – and is credited with being the main inspiration for the hit TV show Happy Valley. Jez, 57, who now lives in Wortham, in between Bury St Edmunds and Diss, not only takes on the hard subject matter of the abuse of elephants in Thailand with his latest documentary Elephant Mother, but it was the most risky of all his film…
