Colleen Davie Janes
- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Colleen is a seasoned feature director and multi-award winning filmmaker, as well as a writer and actor.
Her style leans towards fast paced, serio-comic dramas focused on relationships and family, often with independent and complicated underdogs at their centers. Her comedic eye stems from her background as one of seven kids, with a pro-wrestling father and grandfather. She is an actor's director as a conservatory trained actor in Meisner, Strasberg and other Method techniques and overlapped her acting work with Stand-up comedy.
Her films can be seen on Tubi (2023), Lifetime Movie Networks, Passionflix and Prime.
Colleen began her career in film as a Production Assistant in features. She later became a sought after Coordinator in commercials, music videos and features, working with such directors as: Oliver Stone, Brian DePalma, Robert DeNiro, Hype Williams, John Bayer, Jonus Ackerlund and M. Knight Shyamalan. In between coordinating positions, Colleen directed and produced her own commercial spots: Edge Auto Rentals, Chelsea Guitars Series (DiMassimo NY).
A 2022 Shondaland/SeriesFest Directing Mentorship semi-finalist, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts artist's grant "Anonymous Was a Woman", a SHOOT Magazine "New Director to Watch", Colleen's debut screenplay "The Family Remains" was also semi-finalist in the Page International Screenplay Contest. Colleen is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors, Film Fatales Organization, Women in Media and Women in Film SoCal. She is a graduate of Boston University with a BS in Communications/Film.
Habla español.
Her style leans towards fast paced, serio-comic dramas focused on relationships and family, often with independent and complicated underdogs at their centers. Her comedic eye stems from her background as one of seven kids, with a pro-wrestling father and grandfather. She is an actor's director as a conservatory trained actor in Meisner, Strasberg and other Method techniques and overlapped her acting work with Stand-up comedy.
Her films can be seen on Tubi (2023), Lifetime Movie Networks, Passionflix and Prime.
Colleen began her career in film as a Production Assistant in features. She later became a sought after Coordinator in commercials, music videos and features, working with such directors as: Oliver Stone, Brian DePalma, Robert DeNiro, Hype Williams, John Bayer, Jonus Ackerlund and M. Knight Shyamalan. In between coordinating positions, Colleen directed and produced her own commercial spots: Edge Auto Rentals, Chelsea Guitars Series (DiMassimo NY).
A 2022 Shondaland/SeriesFest Directing Mentorship semi-finalist, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts artist's grant "Anonymous Was a Woman", a SHOOT Magazine "New Director to Watch", Colleen's debut screenplay "The Family Remains" was also semi-finalist in the Page International Screenplay Contest. Colleen is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors, Film Fatales Organization, Women in Media and Women in Film SoCal. She is a graduate of Boston University with a BS in Communications/Film.
Habla español.
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Writer
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