GLOBAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Naomi McDougall Jones
Naomi McDougall Jones is a storyteller and changemaker . She has written , acted in , and produced two award-winning feature films . The first , Imagine I ’ m Beautiful ( 2014 ), collected 12 awards on the film festival circuit before receiving a theatrical and digital distribution deal and is now available on Amazon Prime . Her second feature , Bite Me ( 2019 ), was released via a paradigm-shifting 3 month , 51 screening , 40 city Joyful Vampire Tour of America that took the country by storm , and is now available on iTunes , Google Play , and Amazon . She is currently at work on her next two feature films : Hammond Castle , an adult fairytale for which she received the honor of being the first artist in residence at the final home of Ernest Hemingway in Sun Valley , Idaho , and The Control Room , a psycho-sexual thriller co-written with Christian Coulson .
Naomi is an advocate and thought leader for bringing gender parity to cinema . Her writing on this has appeared in The Atlantic , Ms . Magazine , and Salon . com , and she gave a virally sensational TEDTalk , " What it ’ s Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood ," which has now been viewed over 1 million times and can be seen on TED . com . Naomi ’ s first book , The Wrong Kind of Women : Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood , debuted as a # 1 Amazon bestseller and received an electric critical response , with The Christian Science Monitor calling it , “... an outpouring of passion that will change the ways in which movies are seen ,” and is now available wherever books are sold . Naomi is currently at work on her second book , Vivisection of a White Woman ( by the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway and a Whole Host of Ancestors ).
She is a Founder of The 51 Fund , dedicated to financing films by women . Their films Cusp and Shayda both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award respectively . Visit her website to learn more .
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