Terry Jones is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation who grew up and is currently living on the Cattaraugus Indian Territory located in Western New York. He is a commercial photographer and filmmaker whose primary goal is to portray contemporary Native American society through film, video and still photography.
Previously, he produced and edited the short documentary films Thomas Indian School Reunion (2004), What the Hell Is Corn Soup? and Through The Eyes of Clint. Terry also produced, edited and acted in the short film Frybread: A Traumedy. Terry also produced and edited a five-program series involving Native artists‚ their exhibitions and accompanying artist talks at the American Indian Community House in New York City.
In 2005, Terry attended the Institute of American Indian Arts Film and Television Workshop where he was awarded an ABC/Disney Talent Development Fellowship. His feature length screenplay, Salem, is about a 14-year-old Native girl’s experience in a residential boarding school during the 1940′s. The screenplay was under option at Disney.
Since 2009, Terry has been a panelist for the Electronic and Film Media Program for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
From 2005 to 2009, Terry was on the Board of Directors at American Indian Community House in New York City where he served as Vice-Chairman and Secretary.
I would like to invite you to the Thomas Indian School facebook group if you are interested
See http://www.facebook.com/groups/350008861684301/
I enjoyed watching your video of the TIS reunion in 2004. My cousin, Rhoda Leaffe is in the video. I placed a link to your video on the TIS facebook group so that others could view it.
BTW, my great auntie was Harriet Grace (Lay) Jones so if you’re related to that Jones clan, I would say that we’re cousins.