Stella Meghie made the decision to leave her career in fashionbeauty in 2010 and attended The University of Westminster to pursue her passion in screenwriting During her first year she wrote the first draft of the semiautobiographical feature emJean of the Jonesesem Prior to its World Premiere at SXSW the screenplay won the 2012 Showtime Tony Cox Feature Film Screenplay Competition and Meghie earned a joint fellowship between Tribeca and Canadian Film Centre in 2014 emJean of the Jonsesem is loosely based on her personal experiences and follows 25yearold Jean and her multigenerational dysfunctional middleclass JamaicanAmerican family of women br br br
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Recovering Undercover Over Lover (2012, short)
Jean of the Joneses (2016)
Everything, Everything (2017)
The Weekend (2018)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
Recovering Undercover Over Lover (2012, short)
Jean of the Joneses (2016)
The Weekend (2018)
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