Julia Jones(VIII)
- Writer
Julia Jones has a 20-year career writing, developing and financing films. Her original screenplay, Discretion Assured, starred Michael York and Jennifer O'Neill, screened at Cannes and was executive produced by James Aubrey, legendary head of MGM. She was co-writer and co-producer with Stephen K. Bannon on the feature documentary In The Face of Evil: The Epic Struggle of Ronald Reagan, which won the award for Best Feature Film at the Liberty Film Festival and the American Film Renaissance in 2004. In 2005, she founded East Coast Pictures LLC to develop and produce independent film. In 2006, Robert Guillaume staged a reading of her rap adaptation of Shakespeare's play "Coriolanus," directed by Israel Hicks, at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. In 2008, she also adapted the New York Times best-selling book "Left to Tell: Finding God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" by Immaculee Ilibagiza for Academy Award-winning producer, Steve McEveety (The Passion of the Christ, Brave Heart). She has served as creative consultant to Bannon Films, Genius Products, Inc. and Affinity Media in Los Angeles. She is working with John B. Crye (Memento, The Prestige) on an adaptation for screen of the book "Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu" by award-winning investigative reporter, Ted Anton. A member of the Writers Guild of America West, she graduated with honors in English Literature from Harvard College.