Jon Smith - Balkon Media - Screenwriter & Author

JON SMITH
Producer | Scriptwriter|
Lyricist

Jon Smith is a best-selling author of twenty books for adults, teens and children, and his work has been published in seven languages.

The librettist and lyricist of four musicals, Monte Cristo, Scary Musical, Naughty Pour Homme and Like Me, his work has been performed in London’s Park Theatre and Waterloo East Theatre, The Birmingham Hippodrome and The Waterfront Theatre in Belfast.

He has a Masters degree in Scriptwriting from Bournemouth University. His first film Beyond the Bridge premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2016. He was Associate Producer on Ikonic Film's feature Kidnap Me (2017) and Producer on Savannah Moon’s The Quarry (2018).

He has served on the Executive Council of Writers’ Guild Great Britain. He won Best Screenplay at PAGE International Screenplay Awards for his Cambodia-set feature film script Hidden, and in 2023 he won Best TV Pilot at Shore Scripts for the television drama Monkey Wrench. His scripts have also been finalists for Rocliffe, MIA, C21 & London Pitchbox.

www.jonsmith.net
@jonsmith_author 

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Jackie Fong - Tanoti

JACKIE FONG
Executive
Producer

After having practised investment banking for 18 years over different locations – Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and East Malaysia – Jacqueline made a career shift to focus on entrepreneurship in her home state, Sarawak.

In 2012, she incorporated Tanoti Sdn. Bhd. to assume a Kuching-based workshop of weavers previously funded by the Yayasan Tuanku Nur Zahirah. Tanoti is today an award-winning social enterprise to preserve heritage crafts, empower women and build rural communities. From a community of 11 weavers in 2012, Tanoti
today engages with more than 480 artisans residing in 25 rural and remote communities across Sarawak.

Tanoti is recipient of the Sarawak Chief Minister’s Industry Excellence Award 2022 (Silver Prize, Small Business Category) and winner of the Malaysian Tourism Council Award 2022 in Indigenous Crafts and Experiential
Tourism.

The company is an accredited social enterprise by the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and
Cooperatives.

Jacqueline is Immediate Past President of Society Atelier Sarawak, a society which congregates arts and crafts enthusiasts and functions to market and promote Sarawak’s cultural assets. 

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