Jon Gunn's Page

Name

Jon Gunn

Profession

Male

Company

Writer/Director

Memberships, Affiliations, Unions

WGA, IATSE

Location

Los Angeles

Birthday

June 30, 1973

Resume (Position, Network/Production Company, Year, Location, & Description) - you can cut and paste your resume here

Since graduating with a B.S. in Cinema & Photography from Ithaca College, Jon Gunn has worked as a writer, director, and producer. His most recent films include Mercy Streets and My Date With Drew. Before being released in theaters, Mercy Streets received the Best Feature Film award at the WYSIWYG Festival, and the Movie Guide Award for “10 Best Films of 2000”. My Date With Drew, which had a worldwide theatrical release in the summer of 2005, won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, NY Gen Art Film Festival, and Vail Film Festival, and swept the 2005 Sonoma Film Festival, winning three awards, including the Jury Prize for Best Feature. My Date With Drew beat Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size Me and Garden State for Best Feature, and was listed on www.the-numbers.com as the fifth most profitable film of all times.

Gunn co-wrote Ian the Vampire and the Bernie Mac comedy The Final Four, both currently in development at Fox Searchlight, where he has a blind script deal, and he is now writing Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians for Dreamworks Animation. Jon is also in post-production on Like Dandelion Dust, a feature drama he directed for 20th Century Fox, written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Stephen J. Rivele (Ali, Nixon).

In 2002, Gunn teamed up with producer Kerry David (Executive Producer, Agent Cody Banks; Producer, upcoming Don Cheadle Miles Davis project) to create Lucky Crow Films, which has produced both film and television projects, optioned numerous literary properties, and is currently in pre-production on a number of feature projects, including Why Beulah Shot her Pistol Inside The Baptist Church, a dark comedy adapted by Gail Gilchriest (My Dog Skip) from the novel by Clayton Sullivan.

Gunn and David also co-own IndieProducer (www.indieproducer.net), a worldwide filmmaking community created to discover, educate and support new and emerging talent in film.

Gunn is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, and is repped by Ben Smith at ICM.

Active Projects

Like Dandelion Dust

Projects Currently In Development (Title, Film/Television, Status, Budget)

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Dreamworks Feature Animation)
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church