Screenplays
Jonas's first produced screenplay, Lucid, made its world premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, won the City TV Award at the 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival, and went on to play at a variety of festivals worldwide. The film had a theatrical release across Canada in the spring of 2006, courtesy of distributor Mongrel Media, and now enjoys a cross-country video release, including a place in Blockbuster Video's "Festival Collection" section. Jonas co-wrote the screenplay with director Sean Garrity, and played the lead role.
Currently, Jonas has three feature film screenplays in development. Kosher Sexy is a sexy romantic comedy in which Jonas will play a thirty-something Jewish lawyer whose life is turned upside down when he falls in love with a sexually adventurous, wild, free spirit. Kosher Sexy is in development with Astral Media's Harold Greenberg Fund and Telefilm Canada, and will be co-produced by Jonas and Winnipeg's Juliette Hagopian of Julijette Productions (Stryker, You Kill Me, Capture of the Green River Killer). Teenland, a high-concept teen comedy, is in development with producer Corey Marr (Who Loves the Sun, Passenger Side). Clara's War, an adaptation of the book by Kathy Kacer, is an inspiring story of a young girl coping with life in the infamous Terezin ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia by participating in a rebellious production of a children's opera. The project is also in development with Corey Marr Productions, with the assistance and support of Telefilm Canada.
Jonas has written several other feature film scripts, including Chemical Love, a coming-of-age story about a group of friends experimenting with the drugs and sex of the underground "rave" culture in Canada in the early nineties. Jonas also works as a professional story editor, and has assisted on screenplays by some of Canada's top writers.
