Private Project

Jones

Aware that her drinking has become destructive, Jones takes a go at living the sober life. Not wanting to be someone else’s problem, she pushes away help and comes face to face with herself and her lack of control.

  • Stacey Maltin
    Director
    Stronger Together, Head, Baggage, Linked, Gaining & Losing
  • Marzy Hart
    Writer
    2 Weeks
  • Marzy Hart
    Producer
    Landing Up, Big Exit, Linked, Engaged, Pair of Normals, Gaining & Losing, 2 Weeks
  • Stacey Maltin
    Producer
    Landing Up, Big Exit, Stronger Together, Royally, Hidden Guardians, Sun Shine, Shine
  • Carrie Radigan
    Producer
    The Invaders, 2 Weeks, Fake New Writer, Self(ish), Engaged
  • Marzy Hart
    Key Cast
    "Jones"
    Landing Up, The Incoherents, Slice, Working on It, 2 Weeks, For Ex Lovers Only
  • Lisa Tharps
    Key Cast
    "Barbie"
    Jessica Jones, Power, Madeline's Madeline, Law & Order
  • Michael Varamogiannis
    Key Cast
    "Manny"
    Black Klansman, Self(ish)
  • Valerie Laury
    Key Cast
    "Janine"
    Thirst Street, The Accidental Wolf,
  • Isabella Tan (DP)
    Key Crew
    Strangers at Wo Hop, That Very Evening, Dirty Blonde, Kingdom By The Sea
  • Keriann Correia (Costume Designer)
    Key Crew
    Linked, Stronger Together, Mass, Big Exit, Distro
  • Besties Make Movies LLC
    Production Company
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Magical Realism
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 35 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Arri Amira
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Big Apple Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    February 6, 2019
    New York
    Official Selection
  • Twister Alley Film Festival
    Woodward, Oklahoma
    United States
    Oklahoma
    Winner: BEST DRAMA SHORT Nominee: Best Director & Best Actress nominee
  • Bowery Film Festival

    Official Selection
  • Sene Film Festival

    Womxn In Film, Limelight Award
  • Long Island International Film Expo

    Official Selection
  • Lighthouse International Film Festival

    Official Selection
Director Biography - Stacey Maltin

Stacey wrote, produced, and starred in her first feature film “Landing Up” through her production company Bold Compass Films. It premiered at Dances With Films in Los Angeles and she picked up a best actress as well as best feature nomination. She directed the short film “HEAD” (New Fest Official Selection / Lower East Side Film Festival Official Selection) and wrote & directed the short film Stronger Together which was recently acquired by Shoreline Entertainment after having it's world premiere at NewFest. Work she has produced has further screened at Cinequest Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Flicker's Rhode Island, ITVfest, and more. The script she penned, “The Other Side” was selected by the screenwriting website THE BLACK LIST as a Top 10 Finalist in the Hasty Pudding Fellowship for a screenwriter focusing on satire and social commentary. That script was further selected to be a part of the Black List Table Reads series and was produced as a podcast starring Darren Criss, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Jerry Adler.

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Director Statement

A tiny drag of a cigarette. The occasional stoned night staring up at the stars. Getting drunk on wine and getting silly with our friends. Vices. Guilty pleasures. For many of us, casual indulgences are things that make life a little exciting, something to elevate the conscious or disrupt the ordinary. But for some people, little vices have a way of permeating deep into their lives to become full blown addictions. Jones is about a woman who, when she is inebriated feels blithe and sexually liberated. It also leaves her alone in alley ways, unable to remember the night before. But the decision to stop drinking is just the beginning of any addict’s journey. It’s an important step but it is the start of a life long process to forget the care freeness at the bottom of a bottle and the loneliness that can overwhelm an alone and sober brain. Using dream like storytelling we show the grit and drive in one woman’s life to find pleasures outside of alcohol and how she must keep running away from the inner demons that threaten to drown her.