Suzanne Birrell is a screenwriter, director, actress, bass player, songwriter, composer, and video editor whose creative vision drives the film and performance work of Birrell Jones Productions. With formal training in scriptwriting from Webster University and Fullerton College, combined with real-world experience touring as a professional bass player and managing a Marin County theatre, she brings rare depth and authenticity to storytelling.
As screenwriter, Suzanne has won multiple contests including the Wiki Scriptwriting Contest and placed in numerous festivals including Atlanta Women's Film Festival, Santa Barbara International, and Miami Screenplay Contest. Her extensive catalog spans features ("Calico Pie," "Time Before the Fall," "Phishing for Phoebe"), series ("Sally & Norma," "Mangas Dam"), westerns ("Johanna"), and animation ("Through the Dark Moon and Back Again" featuring wyverns). She founded Screenwriters and Actors of Hollywood (2013) and Screenwriters and Actors of Santa Fe (2017), creating communities where writers and actors elevate their craft together.
As songwriter and composer, she's written original music including "Pay Particular Attention," "Rich Man's War," "Daddy's Home," "Life Goes on Forever," "Other People's Money," "Grimm's Girls," and incidental music for theatrical productions including "Proof." As bass player, she currently performs with country band Half Broke Horses. As middle school theatre and band teacher, she finds daily story inspiration in "unpredictable human behavior." As meticulous video editor and director, she ensures every frame serves the narrative. Her hand-applied watercolor toning on Chuck's platinum palladium prints demonstrates the same attention to detail—transforming photographs into layered artworks.
Chuck Jones is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and fine art photographer with over 40 years of experience building technology companies and mastering light. His photographic journey spans 35+ years and 300,000+ RAW images, documenting vanishing cultures across eight years and 56,000 miles in Mexico.
A pioneer in remote desktop technology (Carbon Copy) and digital commerce (U.S. Patent 5,500,681 with 345+ citations), Chuck brings precision and innovation to his art. His platinum palladium prints employ an 1873 patented process requiring meticulous hand-coating with precious metals on Arches Platine paper. These prints last possibly a thousand years or longer—if the paper survives, the image never fades or discolors. Theoretically forever. Each print is guaranteed for the artists' lifetime against fading or discoloration.
Chuck's consciousness-based photography philosophy, influenced by Eastern thought and panpsychism, seeks to find extraordinary elements in overlooked places—whether documenting a Chichimeca warrior in San Miguel de Allende or capturing the quiet dignity of rural Mexican life. In the partnership, he brings technological innovation, visual documentation expertise, and decades of mastering light.
Suzanne Birrell and Chuck Jones are creative partners in art and in life. As husband and wife, their collaboration spans multiple disciplines: Suzanne's narrative vision, directorial skill, and musical artistry combines with Chuck's photographic mastery and technological innovation to create work that bridges centuries—from 19th century platinum palladium printing to AI-assisted cinema.
Based in Chimayo, New Mexico—with formative years spent in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico—they continue to push boundaries, document vanishing cultures, and pioneer new forms of visual and musical storytelling. Each brings their own mastery to the table, creating work that neither could accomplish alone.
Chimayo, New Mexico