MOTION POEMS - PRODUCTION PARTNER
Co-founded in 2008 by a filmmaker and a poet, Motion poems is a non-profit [a charitable, or 501(c)(3)], organization dedicated to expanding access to poetry and supporting independent film artists by adapting great contemporary poems into short films that we call motion poems. To date, MP has produced 7 seasons totaling nearly 100 short films.
MP reaches over 10,000 people through their films, based on event attendance and online viewing numbers. Fans and followers are from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, the U.K., France, Portugal, Pakistan, India, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, Italy, China, Japan, and elsewhere.
JANE MORLEDGE - DIRECTOR
Jane Morledge is a writer and director whose projects include short films, commercials and music videos. Prior to returning to school to study film at NYU, she served as VP of Creative in the music industry running departments at Sony Music and Def Jam Records – working with artists such as Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys, Pharrell and Mos Def. She presently works on visual projects that encompass music, fashion, film and advertising for a variety of global clients.
JAYSON JACKSON - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Jayson Jackson is a producer of Tony Award®-winning theater, Emmy Award winning film and Grammy Award Winning music. In theater he guided the career of poet Sarah Jones to her 2004 one-woman show, Bridge & Tunnel, which received an Obie Award off-Broadway and a Tony Award for “Best Special Theatrical Event.” He produced the first NETFLIX original documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? opening the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 to rave reviews, receiving an Oscar® nomination in the category of “Best Documentary Feature” and winning an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Special” in 2016. Jayson has also worked closely with artist/activists Mos Def and Lauryn Hill. He is presently in pre-production with Oscar winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) on a documentary featuring the life of the late Tupac Shakur.
SUSANNAH NEVISON - WRITER/POET
Susannah Nevison is the author of one full-length collection of poetry, Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), and the recipient of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her honors include the 2014 Patricia Aakhus Prize from Southern Indiana Review, the 2013 American Literary Review Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets / Larry Levis Prize, and recent Pushcart Prize nominations in both poetry and nonfiction. Her poems, criticism, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Pleiades, The National Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review, 32 Poems, Ninth Letter, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
COLBY PARKER JR. - CONSULTING EDITOR
Colby Parker Jr. is a film, television and commercial editor. His feature films include Patriots Day (2017), Deep Water Horizon (2016), Friday Night Lights (2004), Ant-Man (2015), Lone Survivor (2013) and Hancock (2008). He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical for his work on Ant-Man.