Naomi McDougall Jones

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Naomi McDougall Jones
Born19 May 1987
Colorado, United States
Occupation(s)Writer, Actress and Producer
Years active2006–present

Naomi McDougall Jones is an American actress, writer and producer. [1] [2]

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She is best known for her work on films Bite Me, Imagine I'm Beautiful, The New Yorker Presents and more. [3] [4]

Life and career

Naomi grew up in Aspen, Colorado. She studied acting at Cornell University and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. [5]

Naomi wrote, produced, and starred for Imagine I'm Beautiful, directed by Meredith Edwards. [6] She won The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay at the Cape Fear Independent Film Festival and Special Jury Award for Best Performance at the Arizona International Film Festival in 2014. [7] [8] She is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. [9] In 2016, Naomi gave a TED Talk on the subject at TEDxBeaconStreet. [10]

Naomi served as a writer on Amazon's original series, The New Yorker Presents , which premiered at Sundance 2016. [11] She wrote and produced the 2019 feature film Bite Me, also directed by Meredith Edwards, in which she co-stars alongside Christian Coulson, Naomi Grossman and Annie Golden. [12] Bite Me is a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. In the spirit of transparent filmmaking, Naomi created the Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking from the Edge podcast to document the process of making Bite Me from pre-production through post-production. [13] The film premiered at Cinequest, won Best Feature Film at VTXIFF, and was then self-distributed online with partner Seed & Spark and across the United States on the Joyful Vampire Tour of America, a 51-screening, 40-city, three-month release roadshow that incorporated the film, live Q&As with the cast and creative team, and "Joyful Vampire Ball" parties. [14] The entire tour was filmed by documentary filmmaker Kiwi Callahan for a YouTube docu-series with each episode released week-by-week during the tour. The release strategy behind the Joyful Vampire Tour of America was intended by Naomi and producing partner Sarah Wharton to be a case study for improving the indie film distribution landscape, to create a more economically sustainable ecosystem. [15]

She is currently at work on a book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, which will be published by Beacon Press on February 4, 2020. [16] Inspired by the TED Talk, The Wrong Kind of Woman examines the systemic exclusion of women in film—an industry with massive cultural influence—and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard. [17]

She is also at work on her third feature screenplay, Hammond Castle, a magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman's unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. [18] For the screenplay, Naomi became the first recipient of the artist-in-residency program at Ernest Hemingway House, author Ernest Hemingway's final home in Sun Valley, Idaho. [19]

Filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
2006The World's Astonishing NewsJoannaTV series
2010Out of FocusKate HendersonFeature Film
2011Blood MoonClaireShort Film
2011The Path of AvariceMariahShort Film
2011 Boardwalk Empire Screaming SecretaryTV series
2011The Night Before She Walked Down the AisleNaomiFeature Film
2011FridayShort Film
2011Come Home RaquelNinaFeature Film
2012StunodsEmilyTV series
2012The Perfect SecretCeciliaShort Film
2012Like Ingrid BergmanTaylorShort Film
2014IndigoLizzyFeature Film
2014Imagine I'm BeautifulLanaFeature Film
2016'79 PartsAndreaFeature Film
2017WomanWoman 6Short Film
2019Nothing About ChloeChloeFeature Film
2019Bite MeSarahFeature Film

As writer

As producer

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  3. ↑ "IMAGINE I'M BEAUTIFUL (NR)". laweekly.com. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  4. ↑ "Vampire Comedy 'Bite Me': A Love Song to the Weirdos". indiewire.com. 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
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  6. ↑ "Imagine I'm Beautiful". independent-globalnews.ca. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  7. ↑ "CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS". cfifn.org. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
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  15. ↑ Williams, Mac. "Bite Me Interview with Naomi McDougall Jones". Fanboy Planet. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  16. ↑ "How Gender Inequality in Hollywood Affects Everyone, with Naomi McDougall Jones". speaking.com. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
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  18. ↑ Catherine (2019-07-30). "Bite Me indie film screening at Hammond Castle #GloucesterMA & candlelit tours". Good Morning Gloucester. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
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