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10 YEARS AGO: A film born in a hurricane. On 10/29/2012, as Hurricane Sandy roared into NYC, our team battled the elemen...
02/11/2022

10 YEARS AGO: A film born in a hurricane. On 10/29/2012, as Hurricane Sandy roared into NYC, our team battled the elements for 100s of miles to find an open airport. Defying naysayers, we landed in Havana and shot "Forbidden Cuba" across the island in 3 intense weeks. We captured the vibrancy + beauty of Cuba and its people in a film that's equal parts “Local Hero” and “Heart of Darkness.” (forbiddencuba.com) ETERNAL THANKS to Raphael Duvernay, Joe Foley, Corentin Vinçon & Matt Gordon.

14/06/2022
Filming on the frontiers of medicine

On the frontiers of gene therapy and healing - the best part of working with a team of pioneers is getting to film them and amplify their mission. Here's our look at friends at BioMarin, tackling the impossible in genetic disease.

At Great Jones, our filmmaking team has seen the power of JOY in the workplace - we schedule joy into the agenda through...
05/04/2022
‘I experience joy very easily’: Patti Smith on Springsteen, the climate fight and the meaning of punk

At Great Jones, our filmmaking team has seen the power of JOY in the workplace - we schedule joy into the agenda throughout the day, and we're all the more stoked by the words of the Poet-Queen, the joyful PATTI SMITH.

The singer, poet and writer answers your questions about playing music with her children, being at her friend Allen Ginsberg’s deathbed and maintaining hope in a troubled world

15/02/2022
Adventures in film at Great Jones.

Adventures in filming at Great Jones. A dynamic scientist creates a start-up inside a company that takes risks, to pioneer gene therapy for serious heart diseases. Inspiration in a minute forty-six. Hats off to all those blazing new paths.

25/01/2022
Creating a recruiting film with a sense of mission

SYLVIA! Recent favorite from the Great Jones edit room. Creating a film for RECRUITING gets exciting when we focus on a passionate employee with a sense of mission, driven to push bounds in gene therapy within a company offering freedom to explore.

12/11/2020
Postman's Holiday • THANK YOU NOTE

THREE CHEERS FOR THE POSTMAN! Deep thanks to America's Postal Workers who GAVE THEIR ALL AT ELECTION TIME and who deliver for us every day. Here's #4 in our series: "Postman's Holiday • Thank You Note."

My thanks to: DP, Ben Wolf; Editor: Luis Bocanegra; Music: “Tiny Putty” by Blue Dot Sessions CC BY-NC 4.0

HE JOINED THE POST OFFICE 32 YEARS AGO - good pay, benefits, stability - and he's given TOP-SHELF SERVICE EVER SINCE. Th...
27/10/2020
Stand By Your Mail

HE JOINED THE POST OFFICE 32 YEARS AGO - good pay, benefits, stability - and he's given TOP-SHELF SERVICE EVER SINCE. The Postman never stops delivering. Part 3 from our interview with one of the USPS's finest.
Visit www.standbyyourmail.org.

Thanks to my team, DP Ben Wolf and editor Luis Enrique Bocanegra, and to the Blue Dot Sessions for their track, "Rose Ornamental."

Since 1775, the U.S. Post Office has delivered for us. Now it’s our turn to deliver for them. Let’s build public support to save the USPS. Share your stories about the postal heroes who connect every Zip Code. Heard the story about the Post Office? It’s uplifting, heroic and hopefully without ...

17/04/2020
The 5-Second Getaway: Irish Coast

Join us on the Irish Coast near Cork in this installment of THE 5-SEOCND GETAWAY. From the Great Jones film archives comes quick escape. Remedies cabin fever, restores free breathing.

17/04/2020
VOICES FROM INSIDE 05 - Leon

What does the future hold in a crisis? Leon sees it clearly - from inside prison (where he can't social distance). It's all about personal transformation and actively rebuilding community. Here's #5 in our series, VOICES FROM INSIDE.

01/04/2020
5-Second Getaway: Scuba dock in Bonaire

THE 5-SEOCND GETAWAY: Scuba dock in Bonaire.
From the Great Jones film archives comes a quick escape. Remedies cabin fever, restores free breathing.

20/03/2020
Voices From Inside 03

Invoking Renewal & Resolve in uncertain times ... real rebirth direct from inside a medium security prison ... here's Ritchie in #3 of our VOICES FROM INSIDE series.

18/03/2020
Voices From Inside 02

Building trust & new futures in the last place you'd expect: inside prison ... we've been working with a community of men striving to transform their lives and rejoin society. Here's Anthony in #2 of VOICES FROM INSIDE.

07/03/2020
Voices From Inside 01

Prison life not often seen ... I've been working with a community of men behind bars, all striving to transform their lives and re-enter society with new purpose. Here's Benji in #1 of VOICES FROM INSIDE.

28/01/2020
Pioneering Gene Therapy at BioMarin / Great Jones

We saw it first hand. BioMarin is pioneering gene therapy manufacturing. Our film goes inside the facility and the mission now changing the future of medicine. In a series of firsts, a once derelict office building has been transformed into an epicenter of gene therapy innovation.

29/10/2019
Growing a New Economy in Vermont

Pushing the frontiers of Buy Local & rural entrepreneurship, farmers in Rutland, VT have created their own economic revival. Here's our film - one of our favorites - about the tenacious folks who rallied together to transform an empty factory into a Winter Farmers Market.

22/10/2019
Listening to Front Line Workers

It's people on the front lines who know the business best. Here's our film about PepsiCo's Philly sales team that re-connected with customers in local neighborhoods - and re-ignited business.

17/10/2019
New Film: Network Is / Three Voices

Inside prison, off the radar, incarcerated men are transforming their lives within therapeutic communities - and re-entering NYC as productive citizens. Our latest film - shout out to the bold work of Network Support Services.

08/10/2019
Pursuit of PKU • Trailer

We captured the 15-year quest to innovate the first & only therapies for people with PKU. BioMarin pioneers breakthrough treatments, we're happy to be there to tell the story. See the trailer, full documentary soon.

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19/09/2018

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22/03/2018
"The Blood in this Town" Trailer

“The Blood in this Town” features the inspirational journey of Rutland, Vermont, a struggling blue-collar town now rallying to revitalize and re-invent itself – creating a blueprint for change that can be shared with ailing towns and cities across America.

We brought Forbidden Cuba to the white sands desert of Las Cruces, NM, connecting with audiences thirsty for Cuban cultu...
22/03/2018

We brought Forbidden Cuba to the white sands desert of Las Cruces, NM, connecting with audiences thirsty for Cuban culture and a story of renewal. Thank you, people of the Las Cruces International Film Festival for recognizing our film and its mission.

Thank you, all friends, for believing along the way! Mighty proud to win BEST PRODUCER for FORBIDDEN CUBA @ Brooklyn Fil...
17/06/2016

Thank you, all friends, for believing along the way! Mighty proud to win BEST PRODUCER for FORBIDDEN CUBA @ Brooklyn Film Festival this week. HATS OFF to my producing teammates, Raphael Duvernay, Corentin Vinçon & Joe Foley. OUR TIMELY FILM IS ON THE MOVE!

DEADLINE.com has just featured our film  "Forbidden Cuba" in a column by Peter Bart (former Editor-in-Chief of Variety)....
16/06/2015
Bart & Fleming: 'Forbidden Cuba''; Pitt Detours To Netflix

DEADLINE.com has just featured our film "Forbidden Cuba" in a column by Peter Bart (former Editor-in-Chief of Variety). Never imagined our film would be sharing a headline with Brad Pitt! With 11 days to go, we still have a mountain to climb. All donations are greatly appreciated.
http://kck.st/1FY0b4W

BART: I tip my hat to Art Jones, a guerilla filmmaker based in Brooklyn who went “off the grid” to shoot a gripping dramedy called Forbidden Cuba.

WE ARE LIVE!Please VISIT the KICKSTARTER link below to SUPPORT "FORBIDDEN CUBA" - the timely feature film that my team a...
06/06/2015
FORBIDDEN CUBA is oh so close! Help us complete our film!

WE ARE LIVE!
Please VISIT the KICKSTARTER link below to SUPPORT "FORBIDDEN CUBA" - the timely feature film that my team and I shot on location, defying all odds, in Cuba. It's bound to open eyes and build bridges between the people of the U.S. and Cuba. PLEASE DONATE on our final push to finish this project!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1434116725/forbidden-cuba-is-oh-so-close-help-us-complete-our

We've shot a feature film in Cuba, defying all odds, to reveal an island and a lost American on the verge of revolutionary change.

Momentum keeps building ... film is on its way ... more to come! A shout out to Raphael Duvernay, Corentin Vinçon, Joe F...
14/03/2015

Momentum keeps building ... film is on its way ... more to come! A shout out to Raphael Duvernay, Corentin Vinçon, Joe Foley, David Marantz, Benjamin Wolf, Andrew Jernigan, Julia Gorbach, Mila M, Joe Watson, John Downing Bonafede, Noah Wehle, Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez, Colin Bemis and all who've been part of the journey!

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13/05/2014

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13/08/2013

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10/08/2013

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02/04/2013
Greater Northshire News

Hats off to MANCHESTER, VT, just 10 days away from its next big step in community-building & transformation. We were proud to be part of the Visiting Team on March 11 - as citizens explored challenges facing the town and key ideas that can help move it forward. On April 11, citizens gather again to vote & prioritize their first action steps toward creating a new future. LOOK TO VCRD and Paul Costello, featured in this news clip, for more details and models for change. This is the same revitalization-in-progress work that RUTLAND began just a few years ago. Great things lie ahead, as Rutland, just up the road, can attest.

#15 - Manchester 2020 Community Visit; Raising of

06/02/2013
http://bloodinthistown.com/

Visit our updated home page for "The Blood in this Town" - the website now includes the short video we made on the rise of the Vermont Farmers Food Center.

25/07/2012
Making of "Lustre" - Climbing to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. JULY 2002

Encourage & attempt the improbable - CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN - scale every bridge. 10 YEARS AGO, our filmmaking team climbed the cables to the top of the west tower of the BROOKLYN BRIDGE to shoot the climax of our feature film, LUSTRE. A filmmaking first, we captured a full scene with actors on that tower (the late, great Vic Argo & the venerable Jordan Lage) - at night, at the height of Code Orange, to show that NY spirit & wonder still thrived in the wake of 9/11. Special thanks to DP Benjamin Wolf, Patricia Yoon, Jennifer Levy, Chad Birmingham & the 6 ironworkers who guided us up & back. To date, the most breathtaking night (and sight) of my life.

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