LUCY JONES
Lucy's love affair with cinema began with a well worn VHS copy of 'Cool Hand Luke' that she discovered underneath the tv set but above the Atari console. Growing up on a farm outside of Midway in the 1980s, cable television was but a whispered promise in some utopian future. So she filled her craving for moving images with bi-weekly doses of Paul Newman, well before she knew what half the dialogue meant. Never forgetting this important early education, she began to pursue formal study in college and ultimately graduated with a BA in Film Studies from Emory University. A senior year internship led to a full time publicity position at Fahlgren Entertainment in Atlanta. There, in addition to organizing press junkets and screeenings, she devised promotional strategies for New Line, Fine Line, Lionsgate, IFC, and Sony Pictures Classics in the Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, and Raleigh markets. A bit of wanderlust eventually led her to Los Angeles where she lived for several years soaking up cinematic culture and haunting revival houses. She is thrilled to be back in Kentucky and to discover a community of like minded folks who want to celebrate local filmmaking!
KILEY LANE
Kiley is a documentary filmmaker, producer, director, writer, editor, and on-camera host. Kiley graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003 with a degree in Journalism and Political Science. She began her career as a production coordinator and writer for a television series for Outdoor Life Network. Her love of travel sent her around the world in 2004, after which she returned to her hometown of Lexington, Kentucky to work for the Media Collaboratory at Video Editing Services. In May of 2005 she and Arthur Rouse premiered Harriet VanMeter: A Life Extraordinary, which aired on Kentucky Educational Television; Lane's first documentary. In the fall of 2005 she became Production Manager and on-camera talent for Channel 13 where she created the series' Telluride Today and In Your Backyard, both based around the concepts of travel and lifestyle. When Channel 13 was bought by New York based company, Plum TV, Kiley became Senior Producer and Editor and the co-host of the live morning show: Morning Noon and Night. Over the course of the last four years Kiley has also worked on various video projects and in 2006 teamed up with a producer from Channel G to edit Yele Haiti with Wyclef Jean and Elephant Seals, which appeared in the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado. In 2007 Kiley made her way back to Kentucky to work with Rouse on Non Basta Una Vita (One Life is Not Enough): a story on the life and art of Lexington artist, John R. Tuska. Kiley is excited to be back in Kentucky and to foster artistic and creative relationships across the Bluegrass.
SARAH WYLIE A VANMETER
Born and raised in Central Kentucky, Sarah Wylie received a B.A. in English (film theory and criticism) and a B.F.A. in Art Studio (photography and new media) from the University of Kentucky as a way of piecing together an education in filmmaking. In the four years that followed her undergraduate degrees, she worked as a professional in Lexington as well as apprenticing with local photographer and filmmaker (and writer), James Baker Hall. Under his mentorship, she deepened her love for and fascination with the moving image and left for San Francisco to pursue an M.F.A. in filmmaking at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). Though SFAI's filmmaking department is best known for its tradition in the experimental, she found many reasons and opportunities to work collaboratively on both short and feature narratives. Sarah Wylie returns to Lexington with an enthusiasm for filling the community's need for a robust cinematic scene and looks forward to making new work with the Bluegrass as backdrop.
