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| GRANT RECIPIENTS: MATTHEW JONES |
Matthew Jones is a junior Torrey Honors Institute student attending Biola
University majoring in Cinema and Media Arts. In June 2006 Jones
completed Be the Man, which was filmed during his freshmen year at
Biola. The film, awarded the 2006 DGA Student Film Award: African-American, has screened at festivals across the country including the Urbanworld VIBE Film Festival and the Black Harvest International Film Festival in Chicago.
In the summer of 2006, Jones worked with FGW Productions under
executive producer Stephanie Frederic. With Frederic, Jones did PR work
at the 2006 BET Awards and was an Associate Producer on a BET special
for the film Miami Vice. Because of this work, he was hired as a writer and
producer for the Idlewild BET special. In the summer of 2007 Matthew was a Disney/ABC Production Intern on ABC’s General Hospital. That same
summer he interned at Cooke Pictures as a script reader/production
assistant. In the Fall of 2007, Matthew was an intern with Warner Bros TV
at New Deal Productions as an assistant to the Head of Television
Programming, Kelly Goode.
His latest production, CHOICES, was shot on Super 16 film with film
donated from Kodak as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Grant, part
of the DGA Award. His passion is to become a professional
director/producer/writer who crafts stories with a purpose.
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Past Recipients