JEANETTE BONNER, FOUNDER, CEO
Jeanette Bonner is an award-winning freelance creative producer in NYC working in narrative film, theater, digital content, commercials and podcast.
Jeanette began her producing career with her semi-autobiographical solo show Love. Guts. High School. which premiered at New York's Midtown International Theatre Festival (nominations for Best Actress and Best Solo Show), and later went on to the Chicago Fringe Festival (Time Out Chicago Critic’s Pick) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She then created two series, Ghost Light (Official Selection Miami, UK, Austin Web Fests with nominations for Best Comedy, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Editing) and The Scoop, a Telly Award-winning hybrid talk show featuring conversations with creative people over New York ice cream. The Scoop was a Final Selection for Bravo TV’s Pitch & Development Lab and winner of the Real Pitch TV Format Competition and now streams in the educational market through Infobase Publishing's Access Video on Demand. Her latest project, #single, is a Davey Award-winning feminist podcast featuring interviews with experts as well as single women who are navigating online dating.
Kelly's Pool Hall Productions, founded in 2007, was created out of a passion for helping other artists and filmmakers execute their vision. Award-winning short film In This Life screened at twelve festivals worldwide, winning Best Experimental Film at the Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Musical at the Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, and screened to a sold out audience at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre at the Dance on Camera Festival after being named "one of the top 7 dance performances to catch" by The New York Times. Following its festival success, it streamed on All Arts for several years, exposing the work to people from all over the world.
Dramatic short film Queen of the Desert screened at seven international festivals, winning Best Female Director at Poppy Jasper International Film Festival and Best Film at Lady Filmmakers.
Jeanette's unique skills as producer come from a strong commitment to understand how our industry can better serve artists' voices , as well as a need to increase the visibility of female-forward stories, improve parity representation in our department head roles, and normalize a consent-driven workspace. As an actor for over twenty years, she marries that with a strong desire to connect truthfully with others to unearth their story as well as a deep love of making people smile. :)