Education
Morgan Jon Fox attended White Station High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
Morgan Jon Fox attended White Station High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
Named one of the "25 new faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine, he has directed 4 feature films, Blue Citrus Hearts (2004, Ariztical Entertainment), Away Awake (2005, Ariztical Entertainment), Object Management Group/HaHaHa (2009, Waterbearer Films), and This Is What Love In Action Looks Like (2012, TLA Releasings). He began gaining indie film notoriety in his early 20s coming out of the Memphis film scene, which has produced filmmakers Craig Brewer, Ira Sachs, Mike McCarthy, and Kentucker Audley. He formed the film collaborative, Sawed-Office Collaboratory Productions, in Memphis in 2002.
Fox made his directorial debut in 2003 with Blue Citrus Hearts.
lieutenant became an underground hit on the film festival circuit, garnering high profile reviews:
Blue Citrus Hearts was named one of the top 20 films of 2003 by The Chicago Reader, and the Commercial Appeal. The film is distributed by American distribution company Ariztical Entertainment.
Ariztical Entertainment released Fox"s second film, Away(A)Wake, in 2005. In 2009 his third feature, Object Management Group/HaHaHa, premiered at NewFest in New York city.
The teen-to-early twenties centric film, with a main character who speaks to the viewing audience through his webcam, gained Fox the title "The voice of the youtube generation" by Filmmaker Magazine.
The film is distributed by Waterbearer Films. The documentary, This Is What Love In Action Looks Like, premiered in June 2011 at Frameline, the 35th Annual San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. On April 13, 2012, a follow-up story based on the events in the documentary was featured in a story on This American Life, which was titled Own Worst Enemy.
Fox and Love In Action"s director John Smid appeared on Cable News Network to promote the film, which is distributed world wide by TLA Releasing.
In September 2014 Morgan directed a new project, titled Feral. The 8-episode narrative series set in Memphis features the fictional lives of several queer artists in their early 20s.
The series is an original content production for Gaius Digital, a new platform owned by Derek Curl of TLA Releasing. The new company is set to launch in 2015.