Jon
wrote, directed and executive produced the critically
acclaimed feature film IRISH WHISKEY, winner of the BEST
FEATURE FILM award at the Temecula International Film
Festival. Jon also was awarded BEST DIRECTOR FOR A FEATURE
FILM, by the 2001 New York International Independent Film
& VLos Angeles ). Feature film CHOICES, which Jon
wrote and produced introduced actress Demi Moore to the
screen.
Jon wrote and produced a series of 6
Latin TV Variety Specials entitled ALGO ESPECIAL - VAYA!
Scripts he had written on assignment have been filmed
and/or picked up for distribution by New Line Cinema,
Imperial Entertainment, and Nu-Image - for whom he just
wrote the Apache Helicopter action film, AIR STRIKE, filming
in Bulgaria in April, 2002.
Jon wrote and owns screenplays BEVERLY
HILLS MARINE, MAKING IT IN AMERICA, INTRIGUE, IN MY FATHER’S
FOOTSTEPS, and is currently casting the thriller LOVE
& JEALOUSY to film in 2002.
Published journalist and author, Jon’s
interviews with directors were published in the DGA Magazine,
and his DGA endorsed and critically acclaimed book “ACTORS-TURNED-DIRECTORS
- ON ELICITING THE BEST PERFORMANCE FROM AN ACTOR,”
featuring interviews with:
Mel Gibson,
- Jodie Foster,
- Leonard Nimoy,
- Sydney Pollack,
- Richard Benjamin,
- Paul Mazursky,
- Ronald f. Maxwell,
- Kevin Hooks,
- Melanie Mayron and Kevin Bacon.
Actors Turned Directors was published
by Silman-James Press.
Currently Jon is working on “DIRECTING
ACTION,” and had already interviewed:
- Simon West,
- John Woo,
- Martin Campbell,
- Renny Harlin,
- John Milius and John Carpenter.
Jon is also writing a Producers Guild
of America endorsed, “UNSUNG HEROES - PRODUCERS
ON PRODUCING,” and had already interviewed:
- Gale Anne Hurd,
- Raffaella De Laurentiis,
- Martha De Laurentiis,
- Mace Neufeld,
- Robert Cort,
- Debra Hill,
- Lawrence Bender,
- Sandy King,
- Mark Harris and Robert (King of the
Pitch) Kosberg
Jon served as a literary agent with
the Artists Group, line-producer/Unit Production Manager
on 5 action feature films for Cannon and Epic Pictures
on jungle, desert, urban locations, and a sci-fi film
on stage.
Jon served as Manager of Production
Non-Primetime TV at 20th Century Fox.
Lastly, Jon served as a story analyst
on 837 screenplays; recently, he served as supervising
writer and producer on SCREAM ALONG, audience inter-active
film pilot.
E-MAIL:
jonstevensdga@aol.com
TEL: 323-650-1645
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