R. Malcolm Jones

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R. Malcolm Jones is an American music video and motion picture director. Jones is a graduate of the University of Miami. While a student at the university, Jones was granted the Eastman Kodak Scholarship. He is its youngest recipient. Jones also received a Merit Scholarship.

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After graduation, R. Malcolm Jones went on to film music videos for various artist. He was nominated for Video Director of the Year at the BET Awards. The MTV Video Awards nominated his video "Right Round" by Flo Rida feat Kesha for Best Hip Hop Video.

R. Malcolm Jones has directed music videos for Flo Rida, Avril Lavigne, Cassidy feat Swizz Beats, T-Pain, Chris Brown, Lil Mama, Mario, Ray J, Cali Swag District, K'la, YC, Travis Porter, Jordan Taylor, Vanessa Hudgens, Nas, Clipse, Fat Joe, Brooke Hogan, The Pack, and Roscoe Dash. Jones has also directed commercials for HBO (a talk with Spike Lee), BET (BET Spring Bling) and CMT (Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders). He made a personal appearance as a guest on BET's Top 25 Countdown and was a featured director for VH1's Hogan Knows Best , MTV's Making the Video , and BET's Access Granted .

Projects Jones has written and directed include Seven Lives: Seven Survivors (a documentary and short films include, Ambush, Sweet Potato Pie and Shattered. His first major film, Secrets of the Magic City - starring Jenifer Lewis, Jamie Hector and Keith David - screened at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in the "Narrative" category, and at the Annual Urban World Film Festival in New York City, and the Bronze Lens Film Festival in Atlanta, where Jamie Hector and Jenifer Lewis were nominated and won awards for Best Actor and Actress. It won at the CAPRI Capital Partners Award at the 22nd Annual Pan African Film Festival, and had an international premiere in Paris at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. The film debuted on Centric TV and received worldwide distribution with EOne Entertainment.

Education

University of Miami, Bachelor of Science in Communications, Miami, Florida Double Major Film and English (Creative Writing) Kermit & Mickey Schafer Scholarship winner for outstanding academics George Washington University

Awards

Music videos

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