We can acknowledge that we’re all damaged, we’re all broken. That doesn’t mean that we’re destroyed because beautiful things can grow out of damage. ~ Gina Dobson
I’m exploring a me that I would have never known before. Women wear so many hats. How about wearing the hat that I want to wear! ~ Carla Kelly Turner
I started to get the idea that it’s possible to do what you really want to do — no matter what age you are. [My mother] led by an example for me. It’s not IF this is possible — it’s more WHEN am I going to do this. ~Jennifer Pyle
We are a film production company on a mission to inspire, empower and light a fire! Not just for women (left to right):
Jennifer Pyle Actor, Dancer, Model, VO artist. Content creator/creative collaborator. MCAS warrior. Dedicated to carpe diem & inspiring others!
Carla Kelly Turner author, actor, activist whose personal motto is Uplift the community by enriching and impacting individual lives.
Gina Dobson Writer, actress. Mischief maker, wine drinker, and marshmallow roaster extraordinaire. Survivor.
Jennifer Pyle and Gina Dobson were friends from their previous work as ongoing characters on the comedic podcast Fine In Dandee. They joked about writing their own script for something so they could have the roles they wanted. Carla Turner and Gina have been friends for over a decade performing on stage together many times. They joked one day about the funny things that have happened during auditions, and Carla suggested to make a show about this. So, the trio got together, and they started writing…
They realized that they worked well together (each with a different strength to bring to the table) and formed BAB on 3 Productions and went in search of a dynamic crew to round out our team. They wanted a predominantly bad ass team to create a series about 3 actresses over 40 who are aging out of the industry and are fighting to breakdown the stereotypes and take the roles they feel they’ve been deprived of. It’s comedy for sure, but with social commentary built in. The pilot is “in the can” and they will be searching for financial backing for upcoming episodes.
Getting ready to shoot our pilot episode of BAB on 3! A comedy about 3 actresses aging out of the film industry who bond with the mission of showing the world they are still Bad Ass Bitches.
Jennifer P. co-producer and Porsha Brown director
From the series, they are working on a spin-off podcast to feature inspirational and empowering stories from real life BABs. CALLING ALL BAD ASSES!! Do you know someone who has defied stereotypes/challenges and is kicking them in the posterior? Know anyone who is fearless, rewrites the rules, and/or inspires people to reach for their dreams despite obstacles? BAB on 3 Productions is looking for nominations for guests on our podcast currently in development so we can help tell their stories to the world! Please DM us with nominations
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Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity
Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning storyteller, and thought leader for bringing gender parity to cinema. A long-time advocate for bringing parity to film, both on and off screen, she has spoken at film festivals and conferences around the world and written extensively on this subject.
Naomi’s TEDTalk on these issues and what to do about them, “What it’s Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood,” has been viewed over a million times and produced a global outpouring of support for the women in film movement. Her follow-up TEDxTalk, which she gave with fellow media maker and activist, Sarah Springer, “How to Become a True Agent of Change,” examines the journey each of us must take to unravel white supremacy and patriarchy in our own minds.
Naomi teamed up with former CFO of the City of Chicago, Lois Scott, to found The 51 Fund, an investment fund to finance films written, directed, and produced by women. Through The 51 Fund, Naomi became an Executive Producer of the documentary feature film, Cusp, which premiered in the US Documentary Competition at Sundance 2021 and received a global release and awards campaign through Showtime, where it now also available to stream.
In 2021, Naomi launched Avalon: Story — a center of practice designed to incubate and birth a new media ecosystem born out of two questions:
The inaugural Avalon: Story program was Constellation Incubator, which over the summer of 2021 brought together 60 filmmakers to participate in an 8-week incubator designed to scale innovation within the independent film industry and apply design thinking to re-imagine a more equitable and sustainable ecosystem – from development, film finance, production, to marketing and distribution. She co-founded this initiative alongside Abeni Bloodworth, Angela Harmon, and Liz Manashil. The final presentations from the participants of the incubator – 12 fully redesigned independent film ecosystems can be found on YouTube.
Avalon: Story launched its second program, The Avalon Fellowship, in Fall 2021, bringing 6 of today’s most pioneering cinematic storytellers to The Big Lost Campus in Ketchum, Idaho, for a week-long retreat during which they explored and innovated around the question, “What does Story need to be to build us a bridge to a more beautiful future? “
Naomi is currently at work on her third feature screenplay, Hammond Castle, a magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman’s unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr., for which Naomi received the honor of being the first artist-in-residence at Ernest Hemingway’s final home in Sun Valley, Idaho. Naomi can be seen in this PBS documentary speaking about that experience and, alongside, Sheryl Strayed, unpacking Hemingway’s complicated relationship to women.
Naomi wrote, produced, and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I’m Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit including 4 Best Pictures and, for Naomi, 3 Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. The film was named as #8 of OscarWorld’s Top 10 Films of 2014 and was distributed theatrically and digitally by Candy Factory Films. The film is now available on AmazonPrime.
Naomi’s second feature film, Bite Me, is a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. The film premiered at Cinequest, won Best Feature Film at VTXIFF, and then went on to the innovative, paradigm-shifting Joyful Vampire Tour of America, a 51-screening, 40-city, three-month, RV-fueled eventized tour that involved Joyful Vampire Balls, capes, a docu-series and a whole lot of joy. The film is currently available on BluRay, as well as VOD streaming platforms all over the world, including AppleTV, Amazon, and GooglePlay.
Naomi’s first book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, is now available wherever books are sold in hardcover, audiobook, and e-book. It debuted as the #1 New Release on Amazon in the Entertainment Industry and received an electric response from reviewers with Booklist and Kirkus Reviews calling it “bold,” “convincing,” “passionate,” “well-written,” “urgent,” and “necessary,” and Publishers Weekly writing, “Film viewing will never be the same after reading Jones’ insightful look at the reality of being female in Tinseltown.” Rose McGowan said of the book, “We need truth. The curtain must be pulled back, and Naomi McDougall Jones has done just that.” It has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC, Playboy, Ms. Magazine, Salon.com, among many other national and international media outlets.
She is the co-creator and showrunner for the scripted, short fiction podcast, The Light Ahead, which united over 120 creatives from entertainment with next-economy activists and social justice leaders to explore the question, “What would 2030 look like if the USA had an economy that truly worked for everyone?”, which is now available wherever you get your podcasts.
She was a writer for season 1 of Amazon’s original series, The New Yorker Presents, based on the world’s most award-winning magazine, which premiered at Sundance, for which she wrote the teleplay adaptation of Miranda July’s short story Roy Spivey.
A pilot Naomi wrote, The Dark Pieces, was named on the 2016 WriteHer List as one of the top 16 unproduced pilots by a female screenwriter and is now in development for TV in Canada.
During the early days of Covid-19, Naomi was invited to write an episode of Day by Day, a podcast of short, narrative radio plays exploring “stories from our new normal.” Her episode, Carry Me Home, was the series premiere.
Naomi is currently at work on her second book, Vivisection of a White Woman (by the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway and a Whole Host of Ancestors).
Naomi grew up in Colorado, before attending Cornell and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts for College. Following graduation, she lived in NYC for another 13 years, spent a brief stint in Atlanta, and now lives in Hailey, Idaho with her husband, Stephen.