BIO
My love for storytelling began at a young age, and only grew through a love of film and videography as an art form. I grew up in New Jersey, and was surrounded by diverse tastes in culture in music and film which inspired me to learn how the simplest of details and techniques from different mediums could be pieced together. I've always strived to learn from past experiences, and more importantly enjoy what I do every step of the way. Every spur of the moment skit, high school short film, every university production brought me into the industry, but they were only the beginning… Since graduating from film school, I've spent time on sets in all departments: sound, script, and behind a camera.
-- On Set "Chantage" - October, 2019 --
ABOUT
I am a screenwriter with a passion for directing and all other avenues of the filmmaking process. I've enjoyed working as a script supervisor, boom operator and editor on all of my own material (films, videos, podcasts, photos, etc.) from top to bottom. My favorite step of the process has to be the development and conceptualization, both in collaboration with department heads and other creatives I've met along the way, and also as a solo writer, at home in the discomfort of my desk chair for hours on end.
ORIGINAL FEATURE AND TELEVISION SCREENPLAYS:
X-DAYS (Comedy, Horror) - After a zombie outbreak sabotages a high school party, five unwitting teens must work together to survive the final days of the apocalypse.
THE PROVIDENCE (Sci-Fi, Horror/Suspense) - At the turn of the decade, with the country on edge from the constant threat of espionage and war, a group of college students secretly sanctioned by the U.S. government embarks on a research retreat to an uncharted forest, where their worst nightmares have been awaiting their arrival.
THE EXCHANGE (Romantic Comedy) - Sam, a high school senior, falls for Elle, a French exchange student. But they’ve only got three weeks to test how far their love can reach.
SUNDANCE (Comedy) - A cheap internet comedy show host tries to gain the interest of his main star by casting her in a low budget movie. (IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT)
FACTIONS (Drama, Dystopian Epic, TV SERIES) - Five societies rival over a far future and ruined land, where the climates and conditions can change on a dime. One faction's primitive tradition for deciding their next leader promises to ravage the Empire, and veil the idling threat of war and chaos. It’s a grand fictional world with a multiple-perspective journey of family, morality and power in a future dystopia. (EPISODES 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 WRITTEN)
THE WINE SELLER (Comedy, Crime, Drama) - A struggling salesman in 1966 New York is offered a job by the Callesque crime family to sell wine from their Siena vineyard to the upper-class. But mob business is rarely clean.... A stylish, classical crime epic consisting of an ensemble of wrongdoers and inspiration from Edward Hopper’s iconic paintings.
VIGILANTE (Action, Crime/Mystery, Thriller) - Raised by a Harlem street gang and fostered by the captain of a new police taskforce, by day, Nick Perez is a high school senior, by night he’s a shadow, raging through rivaling gangs and watching over his two families.
VIGILANTE II - ALSO WRITTEN
CINEPHILES (Comedy, Sitcom) - Six dreamers from Hollywood (Florida, not California) sharing an apartment building together navigate relationships, career paths and countless midnight releases at the mall's movie theater. (PILOT WRITTEN)
SUMMER GRACE (Comedy, Drama) - An aspiring writer struggling with the distractions and stresses of college steals stories from her classmates' real lives, bringing her to the top of her class and one step closer to her dreams. But how long can this falsehood stay a secret?
REVIVAL (Horror, Thriller) - Decades after a series of infamous small-town murders, the students at Winter Fields High are terrorized once again.
COLLUSION (Action, Thriller) - Leslie left behind a life carrying out assassinations for the special forces after her husband was killed in a terrorist attack, but quickly falls into her old ways, uncovering a plot closer to home that threatens her country and her family. (Story by George Roger Bryant IV Lord of Henlow & Jacob R. Colon)
MOB FICTION (Comedy, Gangster Drama, TV SERIES) - Two Hollywood directors with ties to the Sheridan crime family must shoot another hit movie… this time they’re not following by the mob’s rules. A vibrant blend of lighthearted Hollywood wickedness and tense crime drama, it’s Californication meets The Sopranos. (PILOT WRITTEN)
QUEENDOM (Drama, Fantasy, TV SERIES) - After the deaths of her father and brother heir, a young woman must become the first Queen in a line of male rulers and head a male-controlled government in a future dystopian America. (Story by George Roger Bryant IV Lord of Henlow & Written by Jacob R. Colon)
ALONG THE HARBOR (Drama) - Separated from his abusive father after the death of his mother, Jay weaves a symphony of bad choices trying to get on the nerves of his new guardian.
THE MECCA PROJECT (Drama, Sci-FI) - Two top-of-the-class students are caught in a temporal loop. When rational thought and science can’t point to the way out, they’ll have to read deeper into the philosophy of their causal purgatory. (IN PROGRESS)
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COMICS AND NOVELS COMING SOON TO XYMYTH WEBTOON & PATREON
NEPHESH: A Tale of Greed (BOOK 1) - Created by Gan Yimke, Jacob R. Colon, & Nicholas Roberts
BORN USERS (Comic Series) - Created by Gan Yimke, Jacob R. Colon, & Victor Hernandez ---And The Deity Duality (SAGA 1 LIGHT NOVEL)
DIMENSION DRIVER (Comic Series) Created by Gan Yimke, Jacob R. Colon, & Victor Hernandez
H2O: Bottle Cop (Comic Series) - Created by Gan Yimke Jacob R. Colon, & Victor Hernandez
Toyokeda (One Shot Comic) - Created by Gan Yimke & Jacob R. Colon
RESUME
DIRECTOR'S REEL (2016-18)
UPCOMING PROJECTS:
Sundance (Feature), Friends in Low Places (Feature)
IDEAS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS
ORIGINAL: City of the Century (Sci-Fi Feature), Atomic Carnival (Sci-Fi 50s Period TV Series), Side Universe (Action/Sci-Fi TV Series and Film Universe), The Elephants (90s Mexican Crime Feature), Sovereign (Action Feature), Ruth (Dystopian Medical Drama Feature), Faith in Twelve (Dystopian Fantasy TV Series)
ADAPTATIONS: Fantastic Four (Feature), The Elder Scrolls (TV Series), Blade (TV Series), Ilvermorny (Wizarding World TV Series),
Credits:
JRC