Jay Spain

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About Jay Spain

Filmmaker, industry guide, community activist, and production business owner. Artistic projects connect the stories of everyday people, stirring our deepest humanity, illuminating everyday efforts as inspiring, and renewing our intention to find a way forward, with compassion. Field Producer for location shoots through ON LOCATION NC Film & Video providing production support services, including arranging local crews and equipment rentals, for corporate presentations, television productions, and independent features. Interested in collaborations with like-minded film industry professionals. As a 4-time alum of the Woods Hole Film Festival on Cape Cod, MA with entries in Fiction & Non-fiction, I serve on the advisory committee for the annual festival. I have served as a co-juror for the Feature Documentary since 2020. I was co-juror for Short Documentary from 2016-2019. https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/ In 2008, First Run Films premiered "Moving Midway" at the IFC Center Theatre in NYC, which I co-produced with Godfrey Cheshire and Vin Farrell."Moving Midway" qualified for the Academy Awards and was picked as one of the best documentaries of the year by NY Magazine. Upcoming original content, titled,"On Dix Hill" will explore the conscious conversion of a historic mental health hospital campus into an international destination park in a modern city.