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Writer/Director/Producer Jonathon E. Stewart sold his first multi-award winning indie feature as Director and Producer in 2007, Guy In Row Five, , and has been continuing to direct and write both feature and short form projects. Most recently, Stewart has been writing and producing short-form, original videos for the New York Times online company, About.com, and polishing up the second draft of a feature script with writing partner Eyal Podell, co-writer of their previous endeavor, Usonia. Having cut his teeth in Hollywood working in PSAs for the Humane Society and independent film after graduating from Dartmouth College, he snagged the award for BEST DIRECTOR at the San Francisco 48-Hour Film Festival in 2005. He went on to direct the music video "Gone" for the band Helmet, headliners of the "Warped Tour", which aired on MTV's Headbanger's Ball and was a MySpace.com exclusive in July 2006. In addition to writing Usonia with Podell, Stewart is developing a second picture to direct later this year. Stewart can also be seen strumming the guitar in the opening credits of The Sweetest Thing, and served as the Director of Development for production company Grover in CA from 2001 to 2005.

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HELMET - "GONE"
VIDEO
Directed by: Jonathon E. Stewart (JStew)
Produced by: Brandon Brooks
Shot on location in Nashville, TN by Harpeth Productions / Rick Prince, DP - Burt Fults, Editor
Airing on MTV's Headbanger's Ball
MySpace.com exclusive - July 2006

HELMET - "SMART"
VIDEO
Only video shot from Size Matters, Helmet's last record with Interscope.
Shot on zero budget - 2005
Directed by: Jonathon E. Stewart (JStew)
Produced by: Brandon Brooks
DP: Mike Dallatorre

GUY IN ROW FIVE
FILM
GuyInRowFive.com
Available on DVD Summer 2007

DOING TIME
FILM
BayAreaPictures.com - Doing Time

THE SPACE WITHIN
FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY
Pre-Production Trailer
Slamdance Screenplay Semi-Finalist
Co-writer: Eyal Podell

MADE IN CHINA
FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY

BROTHERHOOD
1/2 HOUR PILOT

FISHER - "ANY WAY"
VIDEO

HUMANE SOCIETY
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (PBS)
"Nasty"

HUMANE SOCIETY
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (PBS)
"Freddie"

THE CASTAWAYS
ONLINE EPISODIC - IN DEVELOPMENT
BayAreaPictures.com - The Castaways

THE REAL ANIMAL HOUSE
ONLINE MARKETING CAMPAIGN Author/Humorist: Chris Miller
MySpace.com/TheRealAnimalHouseBOOK

Music:

Dylan, Flogging Molly, Coldplay, Mozart, Tribe Called Quest, Radiohead, old Dave Matthews, Smashing Pumpkins, Stones, Beastie Boys, Mazzy Star, G-Love, Iron & Wine, Metallica, the Dirges... Helmet!

Movies:

Godfather (I and II), most of Steven Soderberg's stuff, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, all the great Chevy Chase and Steve Martin classics, Ferris Buhler's Day Off, pretty much everything by Billy Wilder, all those cool '70s movies that people like Redford, Newman, Dennis Hopper & crew made, most of Francis Ford Coppola's stuff.

Television:

Sopranos, Entourage, I've gotta say I'm totally diggin' Rockstar: Supernova...

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Hemingway, recently read "The Dirt," which was like watching a car accident.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Chris Milers THE REAL ANIMAL HOUSE

The paperback edition of 'The REAL Animal House' is finally available and the promo video I created for Chris Miller (author of the book, the movie, and one of THE real animals) is still going strong....
Posted by JStew, Director on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:26:00 PST

September Updates

Where the hell did the summer go? Great news: USONIA (formerly "The Space Within") is currently being optioned to The 7thFloor in New York, and has officially advanced to the final selection round f...
Posted by JStew, Director on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:18:00 PST

August Updates

Just launched the video I created for Chris Miller for his book, "The Real Animal House" - it's going strong with over 500 views in the first five days of its release - good news for the campaign I've...
Posted by JStew, Director on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:43:00 PST

July Updates

I've signed on to produce shortform videos for About.com (eg link below), and just got on board to help create a viral video campaign for the paperback release of Chris Miller's new book in October, "...
Posted by JStew, Director on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:02:00 PST

May Updates

Just finished the polish draft of "Made In China" which our agents will be submitting about town later this month. "The Space Within" is in consideration for the Sundance Writers Lab, and "Brotherhoo...
Posted by JStew, Director on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:40:00 PST

Another one coming...

Just finished the first draft of another script - this one my writing partner and I are calling "MADE IN CHINA." Still have another draft to go, but we're over the initial hump...
Posted by JStew, Director on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:22:00 PST

TSW Slamdance

So, in addition to taking meetings around town, we just found out that "The Space Within" (the script I wrote with my buddy Eyal), which we sort of randomly submitted to the Slamdance Screenplay Compe...
Posted by JStew, Director on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:27:00 PST

MTV and Gone

Just got word that the Helmet "Gone" video has been accepted for rotation by MTV2... Will post more when we get the schedule. Also been a Featured Video on myspace all week.
Posted by JStew, Director on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:54:00 PST

Making Tracks

We just got signed with a lit agency to rep "The Space Within." We're heading out into the world with it mid-July. Any achitecture-buff-buyers out there?
Posted by JStew, Director on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:40:00 PST

Hot in Tennessee

In Nashville until June 8 shooting another video for Helmet and their new label Warcon.  The single is called "Gone".  Should be hitting Fuse and MTV2 in time to promote the Warped Tour...
Posted by JStew, Director on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:11:00 PST