Daniel Jones

Daniel made his narrative feature producing and directing debut with Comic Evangelists in 2006. In 2002, as a Reuters youth reporter, Jones produced and directed a feature length documentary titled "Two Weeks in Johannesburg." The film followed the experience of young people at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon graduating from Hunter College in New York with a degree in Environmental Science, he founded Blanket Statement Productions and worked as an independent producer, cinematographer, and editor for several companies and projects including the Global Lives Project, Generation Excel, and the Morris K. Udall Foundation. While Comic Evangelists was in production in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jones worked as a supervisor in the Education for the Arts Media Lab, a state-of-the-art media center for high school students. He is currently an MFA candidate at American University's Film and Video program in Washington, DC, and runs the website www.theblanketstatement.com.