Jon Felson

Jon Felson is a screenwriter and director. Before turning to features, he founded the Los Angeles based production company Stone Soup Productions, a full service entertainment shop that produced commercials and music videos. Under the Stone Soup banner, Felson worked closely with clients, producing national television campaigns. He directed the award winning Teva Sports Sandal "Free Your Feet" campaign, music videos/NARM presentations for Capitol and Interscope Records, Caves of Fear, an interactive game for Warner Brothers and a 360-degree Circle-Vision film for Iwerks. In 2000, Felson co-created and produced In a Heartbeat, a Disney Channel Original Series inspired by real life EMT squads staffed by high school students. Felson's production background includes special effects work on: The Abyss, The Hunt for Red October and Fat Man & Little Boy. He produced short films starring Chris Elliot for the David Letterman Show and directed second unit on the feature film Home of the Giants, written and directed by a writing partner, Rusty Gorman and starring Haley Joel Osment. Recently, he directed the web-series Powerhouse. As a screenwriter, Felson has penned features for the studios including; Food of the Gods based on the novel by H. G. Wells for Universal Pictures, The Hal Lieberman Company; First Ghost for Mandy Films and Dark Side of the Moon for Red Wagon/Douglas Wick both at Columbia. He adapted the true story of the 1924 US Olympic Ruby team, No Quarter Given for Andrew Vajna's C2 Pictures and wrote an original screenplay The Watchers, based on the real life experiments of Dr. John Lilly for Occupant Films. Producer Andrew Lazar is shepherding his screenplay Drone, inspired by a short story by T.C. Boyle, at Warner Bros. Originally from Marin County, Jon is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and completed the UCLA Professional Program in producing. He has studied directing with Judith Weston and Lesly Kahn. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and represented by Zach Tann at Magnet Management, and Mitch Smelkinson at Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder, LLP. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children.