Marquette Jones is the proprietor of Hotcomb Pictures, a film production
company out of Brooklyn, NY. Marquette hails from Youngstown, Ohio via
Los Angeles and Oakland California. She is a M.F.A. candidate at New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Film Program. Before
attending NYU, Ms. Jones studied History and Mass Communication as an
undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley and went on to get her law degree at
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall.
She has written and directed several short films,
including Milk (2004) and Tunk (2003). Her film,
Heroes Wanted (2005), has appeared
nationwide in film festivals, including the San
Francisco Black Film Festival, the Oakland
International Film Festival and the Independent
Black Film Festival in Atlanta.
In 2006, she won the Promotion
Pictures/Heineken USA Production Grant
Competition, which awarded her $40,000 to
produce Streets 2 Suites. In addition to being a
favorite within Heineken’s marketing
department, the film has gone on to do well on
at film festivals (i.e. Great Lakes Independent
Film Festival, Roxbury Film Festival). Marquette
was also recently a finalist for the Albert P. Sloan Foundation Screenplay
Competition for her script, Love. Lost. Memories.
As a producer, she has two award-winning short films under her belt;
Adventures of Super-N******: First Episode, the Final Chapter, (a featured
part of the Independent Film Channel’s docudrama, “Film Schoolâ€), and
the Showtime Network sponsored, A Spoonful of Sugar, which most
recently became a finalist in the BET J Short Film Contest.
Prior to film school, Ms. Jones was an active Public Interest Attorney in
Oakland, California protecting the rights of HIV-positive clients. Her
inspiration as a filmmaker is drawn this experience and her mid-western
roots in Youngstown, Ohio to tell stories that explore the contradictions
and complexities of the human condition.
A Simple Choice: Thalassemia Testing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82313FtBDNc
