INTERVIEWS THE AWARD-WINNING "BOARDWALK EMPIRE" ACTRESS AND VOCAL ADVOCATE FOR PARITY ABOUT PLAYING A VAMPIRE IN WILD NEW ROM-COM "BITE ME"! Naomi McDougall Jones, Naomi is the star, co-writer and co-director of the new vampire rom-com BITE ME, the film's release is on Feb 8. Naomi, whose other credits include Martin Scorsese's hit TV drama BOARDWALK EMPIRE, stars in BITE ME as a real-life vampire who is audited by an IRS agent. 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 in summer 2019, 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 receiving a global release in February 2022 on digital. 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. Naomi has been a vocal 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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skstradio/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skstradio/support