Michael Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas and graduated from New York University. In New York, he was the former Managing Editor of Filmmaker Magazine and later became the Executive Editor of indieWIRE.Jones is a MacDowell Colony fellow, attending the artist colony in 2000 and 2003. After leaving Filmmaker Magazine he was later chosen as one of the magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.During the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike Jones became the Managing Editor of Film Festivals for Variety and later promoted to the independent film beat. At Variety he also maintained blog called The Circuit and served as a festival correspondent for Sunday Morning Shootout on AMC TV. Show less «