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Set on an American Indian reservation in the late 1950's, a young Seneca boy steals his grandfather's butcher knife. This short film is based on the director's award winning short documentary "Soup For My Brother," which won best documentary at the Liverpool International Film Festival in 2016.

  • Terry Jones
    Writer
    Soup For My Brother
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Genres:
    drama, Native American, Indigenous, short flim
  • Number of Pages:
    9
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English, Other
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Terry Jones

Terry Jones is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians (wolf clan) which is located in western New York State. Terry graduated summa cum laude in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in film from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Terry's short documentary "Soup For My Brother" won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Liverpool International Film Festival in 2016. He also co-wrote and co-directed the short narrative "Give and Take" (with Govind Deecee). The film won the EMERGING FILMMAKER award at the 2015 LA Skins Fest in Los Angeles. Jones and Deecee also collaborated on other short film scripts including "Empire State," "Unearthed," "Scarlett," and "Gripped," which were all co-directed into short narratives and documentaries.

Previously, Jones was awarded an ABC Talent Development Scholarship Grant. At the end of the one-year mentorship program, Terry completed his first feature-length screenplay "Salem," which tells the story about an American Indian's teenager experience in an Indian residential school in the 1950's.

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Writer Statement

Terry Jones is a Native American filmmaker and educator currently living on the Seneca Nation territory in Western New York. Growing up on an American Indian reservation has given Jones a unique worldview perspective. Jones has a passion for sharing Iroquois history and culture through his writings and films and has a pssion for the sharing of indigenous foods. It is Jones’ intention to engage his audiences’ five senses through his work.

Jones would like to use his art as an agent of change. Like many other communities, Jones' home territory is confronted with many issues that negatively impact its quality of life (loss of language, drug abuse, diabetes, environmental dangers, public safety and injustice). It is his hope that his future film projects will promote and facilitate dialogue that can influence changes in public policy.