writer, script producer, story editor
ABOUT
Mike Jones is a writer, script producer, and story editor whose projects have received numerous AWG, SPA, & ADG awards & nominations. Mike is best known as an expert in speculative & dark genre narratives but is equally adept in shaping narrative comedy.
Currently he serves as story editor with boutique TV production company, SweetPotatoFilms, whose success includes the celebrated supernatural drama series, ‘The Kettering Incident', and as script producer for EveryCloud Productions, most recently steering youth-drama series 'Deadlock' for the ABC.
A well regarded story developer, Mike has worked with companies including the ABC, WarnerBros, Jungle, Porchlight, and Essential, and served as story producer and script editor for Princess Pictures. He has also lead long-form script development labs for YouTube, and is story consultant to ABC Signature studios in the US.
Mike was script producer for the ABC across a slate of projects including comic-drama series; 'F*cking Adelaide', 'Other People's Problems', 'Wrong Kind of Black', and 'Edge of the Bush’. He was script-editor on the ADG award-winning comedy series, ‘Small Town Hackers’ for US network Above Average and 'Superwog' for the ABC.
Aside from TV, Mike was co-creator of the virtual-reality detective-thriller ‘VRNoir' with StartVR; short-listed for the International ProtoAward for most Innovative VR 2016. He is also co-writer of speculative fiction VR mystery thriller, ‘Awake’ which premiered at SXSW and featured at Cannes in 2018.
Mike previously served as a development executive to ScreenAustralia & lectured in story & writing at the Australian Film TV & Radio School, where he currently sits on the AFTRS ReFrame industry advisory group. As a novelist Mike is author of ‘The Transgressions Cycle’, a three-book series of supernatural gothic novels published by Simon&Schuster & named on Apple iBooks'Best Of' list.
Mike’s early career spanned writing for theatre & working as a screen industry journalist.
MEDIA
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NEWS
16/08/18 The Screen Producers Australia SPA Award nominations for 2018 have been announced and very happy to have three projects make the list.
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12/07/18 Our immersive VR psychological thriller, AWAKE, will have its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival next month. After selective showings at SXSW and Cannes earlier this year very happy to see the complete AWAKE experience now showing on home soil. AWAKE stars Jake McDorman (American Sniper, Limitless), Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Warm Bodies) and Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby, Picnic at Hanging Rock).
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28/06/18 Nominations for the 51st Australian Writers' Guild awards have been announced and am thrilled to have two shows on the list. 'Fucking Adelaide' with the episode 'Maude Loves Us' penned by Matthew Cormack is up for Best Comedy, and 'Wrong Kind of Black' is nominated for Best Online series. It was an enormous pleasure to script-produce both these shows and work which such extraordinary teams and talents.
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21/06/18 Excited to announce production has begun on new comedy series, Superwog created by online superstars, Theo and Nathan Saidden. Working with the fantastic team at Princess Pictures and producer Paul Walton, it's been a blast to serve as script editor on this their first 6xhalf-hour comedy series for ABC TV.
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12/06/18 'Secret Threads' and the wonderful Rebecca Ingram is part of first Dame Changer Mentor-To-Market screen initiative. Having worked with Rebecca previously on the recent ABC/Every Cloud Productions series Deadlock, I'm now collaborating with Rebecca to story-produce Secret Threads and working with outstanding writer and playwright, Michele Lee.
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07/06/18 Very exciting news today that our 4-part comic-drama series Wrong Kind of Black will have its world premiere at Festival SERIES MANIA in Melbourne next month followed by broadcast on ABC and iView.
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06/06/18 At long last a big announcement today - THE GLOAMING is coming... The new series from showrunner Vicki Madden and Sweet Potato Films has been unveiled to premiere on Stan with Fiona McConaghy and John Molloy producing in partnership with Disney’s ABC Studios International.
I've been working with Vicki as story editor on The Gloaming and deep in the development trenches for months now shaping this complex and ambitious show. No two ways about it, it's bloody hard work. But I couldn't be more excited.
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It is both tragic and inspiring when a 13 year old kid plainly shows more grace, dignity, insight, humanity and, le… https://t.co/nJbMQ0MkYf -
Discussing writing process with 150 established writers yields 7 simple but valuable insights.… https://t.co/JwLbfrddgV
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My comrade, Vicki Madden, picks her six favourite TV dramas for Drama Quarterly, which include a blend of science f… https://t.co/Ys2wslC0zW
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A fair criticism of most writing about the structure of Storytelling and Drama is that it’s often very euro-centric… https://t.co/bSft4IO7eg
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I object to simplicity. The world is complex, humanity is... https://t.co/eLg58kH5ac
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I'm going to be keeping great company in Byron Bay next month talking writing and filmmaking with the uber talents… https://t.co/Uv3KlPaq7p
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A journey to the edge of madness.... ‘A Midnight Visit’, the Edgar Allan Poe immersive theatre experience comes t… https://t.co/U36bhWh9ym
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This Vanity Fair article looks at recent changes in the way US networks operate TV writers-rooms; particularly the… https://t.co/5kb6VSwDfy
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The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe - a remarkable exhibition from The Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Any w… https://t.co/yjsUQiL6MJ
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According to Kurt Vonnegut, all stories can be reduced to a few familiar arcs. Using a chalkboard, he guides an aud… https://t.co/OAgRUZ1JIB
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