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Episode 175: Marquette Jones, Filmmaker, Professor, Podcaster

August 27, 2019 by Julie Harris Oliver in Diversity, entertainment, entrepreneur, women, activism, human rights, gender equity, advancing women, acting, Directors, Editorial, Film & TV, film festivals, hollywood, Independent Film, Post Production, Producer, Writers, business, DGA, NYU, PGA, Politics, Studios, theatre, Coaching, Comedy, cooking, documentary, WGA

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Marquette Jones began her filmmaking journey in her hometown, Youngstown, Ohio. Marquette is an alumna of New York University’s Film and Television Production graduate program. Before becoming a filmmaker, Marquette was a public interest attorney and social entrepreneur in Oakland, California.  

Her feature film screenplay, AFTER THE JUMP, http://www.afterthejumpmovie.com/, which is currently in development, was recently selected for the Athena Screenwriting Lab in Los Angeles and was a finalist in the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Broad Humor Film Festival as well as a semi-finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition. It was also selected to participate in the Women in Film/ Sundance Institute’s Film Financing and Strategy Intensive.

Her directing work includes FORGIVING CHRIS BROWN, ROUND ON BOTH SIDES, TUNK, HEROES WANTED and STREETS 2 SUITES (lensed by Bradford Young).  Her films have been featured on Amazon Video, PBS, Showtime, KweliTV, Aspire TV, BET, IFC, StreamPlix and other broadcast & digital outlets. She has also directed several commercial spots, which led to both a Telly Award and Aurora Award for excellence in storytelling.

As a producer, Marquette’s credits include Andrea Williams’ SPOONFUL OF SUGAR, Alrick Brown’s ADVENTURES OF SUPERN*GGER, and Tamika Guishard’s JACKIE. Her past filmmaking-related awards include: New York University’s Warner Bros. Production Award, Panasonic‘s “P2 for a Cause” Grand Prize Winner, Fotokem Film Processing Grant, Woods Hole Film Festival, Best Short Screenplay Winner for “Free’s Rain”, ProMotion Pictures / Heineken Branded Entertainment Shorts Competition Winner, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival Best Short Narrative, and First Run Festival’s Producing Award.

When she is not busy writing, producing or directing, Marquette hosts the Directing Magic podcast,http://www.directingmagic.com/, and teaches creative media at The University of Alabama.

August 27, 2019 /Julie Harris Oliver
culture, gender equality, gender advocacy, women in film, Studios, female filmmaker, podcasting, female director
Diversity, entertainment, entrepreneur, women, activism, human rights, gender equity, advancing women, acting, Directors, Editorial, Film & TV, film festivals, hollywood, Independent Film, Post Production, Producer, Writers, business, DGA, NYU, PGA, Politics, Studios, theatre, Coaching, Comedy, cooking, documentary, WGA
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