About The Director
Jon Fletcher is a Los Angeles-based independent director/producer. Born and raised in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Jon left the South to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he graduated with honors in documentary film production.
Throughout his seven years in New York, Jon was involved in a variety of projects including the award-winning feature documentary THE HIP HOP PROJECT. His other credits include The History Channel and The Style Network where he served as an Associate Producer. He also assisted Margaret Brown (BE HERE TO LOVE ME) and Lee Daniel (FAST FOOD NATION) on Margaret's new feature documentary ORDER OF THE MYTHS.
At the age of twenty, Jon began shooting CALVIN & SWEETPEA in order to document the extraordinary dynamic between his grandmother Helen and her primary caregiver, Shirley Akers. Four years and seventy-five hours of footage later, what began as a brief look at Alzheimer's disease turned into a universal story of loss and absolution, told by the people who experienced it firsthand.
Jon Fletcher currently lives in Los Angeles and works as a caregiver for a woman with Alzheimer's. He is also an assistant editor with the Duplass Brothers (THE PUFFY CHAIR) on their new film BAGHEAD. His directorial debut, CALVIN & SWEETPEA, premiered at the Boston Film Festival in the fall of 2007 where it was awarded Best Documentary. Jon is presently writing a narrative feature screenplay which he hopes to shoot in New York in the fall of 2008.