Born and raised in Saskatoon, Jefferson Moneo is a producer, writer, and director and a graduate of Columbia University’s Film MFA program. While a student, he was twice awarded the Hollywood Foreign Press Award for Most Outstanding International Student and received an Alfred P. Sloan grant for his comedy web-series “Here Come the Humans”, the largest such grant awarded in Columbia School of the Arts history. As a filmmaker, his work has been supported by the National Screen Institute, the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Harold Greenberg Fund, the Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada. His films have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, TIFF, and Slamdance, as well as been exhibited at the Moscow Bienalle. His debut feature, “Big Muddy” was filmed in Southern Saskatchewan and produced in collaboration with Angel Entertainment in Saskatoon. His follow up feature film, “Cosmic Dawn”, was released theatrically in Canada and the United States in February 2002. His latest feature, “There Were Witches”, a Canada/Mexico co-production, is slated to begin production in Mexico City in Fall 2023 and will be distributed by LevelFilm in Canada with Sphere Media handling international sales.
