Amy Holden Jones is an American screenwriter and film director. She
has edited various films and later began directing and writing. She
currently works in television.Jones grew up in Florida and lived in
Buffalo, New York during her high school years. She attended Wellesley
College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, majoring in art history, so she
could also take film studies courses at nearby MIT in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.After she won first place at the American Film Institute
National Student Festival for her short film A Weekend Home (1975),
Martin Scorsese, one of the judges, offered her a job as his assistant
as he directed Taxi Driver. It was there that she met her husband
cinematographer Michael Chapman. Martin Scorsese told Jones she was
“too good to be an assistant†and got her in contact with film
producer Roger Corman. She went on to work for Corman editing Joe
Dante's first film, Hollywood Boulevard, when she was 22 years old.
She edited American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince for Scorsese,
Corvette Summer for MGM, and Second-Hand Hearts for Hal Ashby. She was
offered the job of editor on Stephen Spielburg’s E.T, but turned it
down in favor of directing her own movie. She directed her first film
The Slumber Party Massacre by the age of 27, also for Roger
Corman.Jones is featured in the first chapter of Julie MacLusky's book
Is There Life After Film School? as well as in The First Time I Got
Paid for It by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro.
has edited various films and later began directing and writing. She
currently works in television.Jones grew up in Florida and lived in
Buffalo, New York during her high school years. She attended Wellesley
College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, majoring in art history, so she
could also take film studies courses at nearby MIT in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.After she won first place at the American Film Institute
National Student Festival for her short film A Weekend Home (1975),
Martin Scorsese, one of the judges, offered her a job as his assistant
as he directed Taxi Driver. It was there that she met her husband
cinematographer Michael Chapman. Martin Scorsese told Jones she was
“too good to be an assistant†and got her in contact with film
producer Roger Corman. She went on to work for Corman editing Joe
Dante's first film, Hollywood Boulevard, when she was 22 years old.
She edited American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince for Scorsese,
Corvette Summer for MGM, and Second-Hand Hearts for Hal Ashby. She was
offered the job of editor on Stephen Spielburg’s E.T, but turned it
down in favor of directing her own movie. She directed her first film
The Slumber Party Massacre by the age of 27, also for Roger
Corman.Jones is featured in the first chapter of Julie MacLusky's book
Is There Life After Film School? as well as in The First Time I Got
Paid for It by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro.
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