“Directing is really exciting. In the end, it’s more fun to be the painter than the paint.”
-George Clooney
Since I was a boy, I loved watching movies and television shows. Combine that with my passion for writing and traveling, it was only a matter of time before all my passions would come together. This is why I created Hollywood Jones Productions, I wanted an outlet for telling the stories that I didn’t see in the world while also creating my own business opportunities. My company is based out of Compton but travels around the world looking to produce YouTube videos, docuseries, documentaries, tv and film projects.
Email: Hollywoodjonesprod@gmail.com
Basketball Jones: The Overseas Journey
3.2% of high school players will make it into college to play basketball. And of those few, only 1.2% will make it to the NBA. What happens to those players when they fall short on their basketball dreams? For the few who still chasing their dreams of a professional career, the next option is overseas basketball. There are roughly 2,160 European basketball job opportunities each year for Americans. Every summer, these men and women will have to decide whether to leave family and friends for nine months to embark on a journey that has been lived by many but never told properly. This documentary will explore the ins and outs of this truly unique situation, one that many non-participants are unable to grasp, until now.
Release Date: July 2015
Platform: Vimeo On Demand
Sports 2000 interview, April 18, 2015, Rome, Italy
Private Screening in Rome
Outdoor Screening at LB Polytechnic
Movie Premier in Seattle at 2312 Art Gallery
Growing Up Compton: The Dons
Growing Up Compton: The Dons is a docuseries about the rise and fall of the most infamous high school boys’ basketball program in the nation. Located in Compton, California the Dominguez Dons dominating the boys basketball scene locally and nationally, was pampered with unlimited Nike gear, middlemen orchestrating highly touted players to relocate schools, daily exposure to gangs and a head coach charged with sexual molestation. You have all the ingrdients for a school built for scandal. 20 years later, we catch up with these boys now men to share and reflect on stories of an era that will never be duplicated.
Format: Six episodes, 30 minutes
Status: Looking for funding
Anatomy Of A Protest: Portland
Bobby Jones, a 36 year old, African American has spent the last 11 years living in Italy unlearning many of America’s ideologies. After undergoing a spiritual awakening during Italy’s 3-month Covid-19 lockdown, he arrives back to the states days after the police killing of George Floyd. With Bobby never witnessing a protest and nationwide demonstrations growing, he decides to drive from Compton to Portland spending 7 days documenting, interviewing locals and unraveling the social innerworkings of Portland’s record-breaking consecutive months of protest.
Status: Post-production/Looking for funding
Running’ With The Pack
This feature documentary covers the first three seasons of the Lorenzo Romar era as head coach of the University of Washington men’s basketball team. Find out how this unlikely group of players arrived to the program and were able to pull off one of the greatest college basketball turnarounds during the 2003-04 a season. The Huskies became nationally recognized with future NBA stars Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy becoming household names while capturing one of the #1 seeds in the 2005 NCAA tournament. Never seen before video camera footage gives a personal insight into the journey these young men took while changing the basketball culture at Washington forever.
Format: Feature documentary, 30-45 minutes
Status: Looking for funding