Alethea Jones keeps busy as a director, writer, actor and choreographer. Her latest short film, Lemonade Stand was the winner of Tropfest 2012 and has since been selected to screen in the Tropfest All Stars competition in Las Vegas.

Another of her shorts, When the Wind Changes recently won Best Short Film at the IF awards (2011). Since premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival (2010) as part of its Accelerator program, When the Wind Changes has received awards including the Audience Choice at both Flickerfest and St Kilda Film Festival, where it also won Best Comedy. It has enjoyed screenings at international film festivals including - Zurich, Prague, Beverly Hills, St Louis, Brisbane and the Friars Comedy Festival - New York and L.A Comedy Shorts.

In 2011 Alethea was one of three director / editors on the webseries Cop Hard who direct under the pseudonym “Charles C. Custer” and most recently, she directed the Flickerfest 2012 trailers and Tissue, a documentary that premiered on the ABC as part of its acclaimed Anatomy Series. 

During her film studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Alethea was the recipient of an ACS award for cinematography and her graduating short film musical,The Girl in the Moon, won the St Kilda Film Festival’s Craft Award. Alethea has choreographed for acts such as Operator Please, Delta Goodrem, Kisschasy and Children Collide.

Alethea loves thinking up strange ways to make people laugh (in film and life).