Chris Jones

Education

Jones was educated at Bournemouth Film School, and made his feature film director debut at the age of 21 with The Runner (1992).

Career

He owns the film company called Living Spirit. His films include the 1994 British thriller film White Angel starring Peter Firth and Don Henderson, and Urban Ghost Story (1998), a horror film set in Glasgow starring Jason Connery. Jones wrote and directed the short film Gone Fishing starring Bill Paterson, that premiered at British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 12 January 2008.

The film was among the final 10 long-listed shorts for the 2009 Academy Awards.

In 2014, he released a film, 50 Kisses, in collaboration with a large number of people organized through the London Screenwriters" Festival. His upcoming feature is titled Rocketboy.

Jones is the author of several books on film-making, inkluding The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook. Having made several feature films on shoestring budgets, Jones has warned that the British film industry needs to cut back on their spending if it is to survive.

He teaches a variety of filmmaker courses from his Ealing Studio location.

Achievements

• Gone Fishing won 35 prizes at the film festival circuit including the Grand Prize at the 2008 Bahamas International Film Festival, and the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival, and it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Edmonton International Film Festival. At the 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival and the 2009 Method Fest Independent Film Festival it took home the Audience Award, and it received the Golden Honu Award at the 2009 Big Island Film Festival. Gone Fishing further won both the Director"s Choice Award and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sedona Film Festival, the Achievement Award for screenwriting at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival, and the prizes for Best Short at both the 2009 Indianapolis International Film Festival and the 2009 Palm Beach International Film Festival, as well as receiving the prize for Best Narrative Short by the Producers Guild of America.