I'm Savanna Jones, the filmmaker behind FilmGirlSouth.
I work behind the camera on productions throughout Mississippi and the South, and FilmGirlSouth grew out of something I kept seeing firsthand: there are incredible filmmakers, locations, stories and opportunities here that most people never hear about.
So I decided to put a lens on them.
My Mission 
Encourage. Support. Strengthen.
FilmGirlSouth exists to encourage, support and strengthen filmmakers in Mississippi and across the Southern region while showing audiences everything the South has to offer.
About Savanna
She earned her BFA in English and Film from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she directed her first environmental documentary "Gulf Coast Resilience - Bonnet Carré Spillway" (2019) which was screened as part of the "Waterlines: Blue Economies & Sustainable Futures" program at University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Park Research Center in December 2019.
Savanna is the founder of two award-winning businesses: Savvy Snapshots Photography and Little Lighthouse Productions. Her photography business, Savvy Snapshots, has received notable recognition, winning *Sun Herald*'s Best of Coastal Mississippi in 2023 & 2024, also named Top 3 for Best Videography in WXXV’s Viewer's Choice Awards Wedding Edition, and earning a photography award from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center for her landscape work.
Awards & Screenings
2026 ADDY Awards
Mosaic Addy Award Winner
2025 Attendee
NFL Films
Women in Sports Filmmaking Experienceship

2025 Telly Awards 
Silver and Bronze Telly Winner
Llamapalooza Commercial, Bobby Cox for Mayor, R Lee Flowers for Ward 6
2024 Recipient
Gulf Coast Woman Magazine
100 Successful Women to Know 2024
2024 Telly Awards Winner
Bronze Telly Winner 
Night to Shine Special Needs Prom
2024, 2023 Winner
Best of Coastal Mississippi, Sun Herald
Best Photographer 
Press Kit
Films
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