JONAH Z HELMS is an award-winning writer, director, and creature performer. His directorial projects include Stolen Tundra, which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying LEEDS Film Festival, the guerrilla feature The Pardoner’s Tale (distributed by River Coast Films), the experimental film To The West (co-commissioned by The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History and the Chatter Music Series), and music videos for soul singer Morgan James and pop duo D_xter Forever.
As a screenwriter, Jonah’s feature script In the Mouth of the Wolf was a semi-finalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, placed in the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and was acquired by Wolper Org and Autumn Bailey Entertainment, with Jonah attached to direct. His most recent script, Shifting, was a finalist for the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, which praised its “the realistic dialogue, the ultimate questions about family and morality; all of the elements are satisfying and deeply thought out.”
In addition to his work behind the camera, Jonah is a creature performer with an impressive list of credits, including The Revenant, The Magnificent Seven, Tammy, The Lone Ranger, Godless, The Lovebirds, and three seasons as Mrs. Kipling on the Disney series Jessie.
A graduate of Emerson College with a degree in film production, Jonah attributes his collaborative storytelling spirit to his twin sister, the vibrant riffraff of the New Mexican high desert, and his formative years with the political-circus troupe, The All Species Project.