Adam Garnet Jones facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Adam Garnet Jones
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| Born | c.1982/1983 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, author |
| Years active | 2006-present |
| Television | APTN |
Adam Garnet Jones is a Canadian filmmaker and writer. He was born around 1982 or 1983. His movies and stories often focus on the lives and experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Since 2021, he has worked at APTN. He helps create TV shows and special events for the network.
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Early Life and Learning
Adam was born in Calgary, Alberta. He has Cree, Métis, and Danish family roots. He grew up in Edmonton and British Columbia.
He went to the Gulf Islands Film and Television School. Later, he moved to Toronto, Ontario. There, he studied film at Ryerson University, which is now called Toronto Metropolitan University.
Making Movies and TV Shows
After finishing university, Adam's short film Cloudbreaker was shown at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. He also helped run a film program for young people at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto.
He made other short films like A Small Thing, Wave a Red Flag, and Liar. He also wrote an episode for the TV show Cashing In. He was a writer and story editor for the TV series Mohawk Girls.
His first full-length movie, Fire Song, was shown at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Fire Song won Audience Choice awards at four different film festivals. One of these was the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
Jones' second movie, Great Great Great, was first shown in March 2017. This was at the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival. It won three top awards there: Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Performance. Great Great Great was released in movie theaters that same year. In 2018, Adam and Sarah Kolasky were nominated for an award. It was for Best Original Screenplay at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Writing Books
In 2018, Adam published his first young adult novel. It was a book version of his movie Fire Song. The novel was a finalist for the Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Literature. In 2019, the Fire Song novel won a Bronze Medal for Young Adult Fiction. This was at the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
In 2020, a book called Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction was published. It includes a short story by Adam called "History of the New World." This story explores a future world and how Indigenous culture can help people deal with big global problems.
Other Creative Work
Adam also creates beautiful beadwork jewelry. He sells his art online through an Etsy shop. Some of his jewelry pieces have even been used in the TV show Rutherford Falls.
Awards and Recognitions
- "Canwest Mentorship Award" from ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in 2008.
- "Best Short Drama" from ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival for A Small Thing in 2008.
- "RBC Emerging Artist Award" from Toronto Arts Foundation for Cloudbreaker and A Small Thing in 2011.
- "Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize" from Writer's Guild of Canada for Wild Medicine in 2013.
- "Air Canada Audience Choice Award" from ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival for Fire Song in 2015.
- "Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature" from Reel Out Kingston for Fire Song in 2016.
- "Best Screenplay" from Canadian Film Festival for Great, Great, Great in 2017.
- "Best Feature Film" from Canadian Film Festival for Great, Great, Great in 2017.
- "Top 10 Canadian films 2017" from Globe and Mail for Great, Great, Great in 2017.
