Background
Jones grew up in Florida and lived in Buffalo, New York during her high school years.
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Education
She attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, majoring in art history, so she could also take film studies courses at nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Career
She began her career as a documentary filmmaker, then entered the film industry editing low-budget films, then studio films, and ultimately began directing and writing. Her genres range from fun summer movies to kids movies to romance to horror. From 2003 on she has worked in television writing pilots every year for every major network and cable.
She went on to work for Roger Corman editing Joe Dante"s first film, Hollywood Boulevard, when she was only 22 years old.
She became the youngest film editor in the business, and edited American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince for Scorsese, Corvette Summer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Second-Hand Hearts for Hal Ashby. She directed Slumber Party Massacre by the age of 27, also for Roger Corman.
lieutenant became a cult classic and was recently re-released on Blu-Ray. Jones has stated that there are times when actors will have scenes rewritten in order to make themselves more appealing to the public, even though it may not be the best thing for the film itself.
Jones is featured in the first chapter of Julie MacLusky"s book Is There Life After Film School? as well as in The First Time I Got Paid for lieutenant by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro.
