Hello,

I’m a writer, director and producer alongside my partners at Rose Pictures (Kill Your Darlings, Margin Call, Afterschool).

Projects in development include the series Jack Staff with Sony Pictures Television, and an adaptation of Isabel Allende’s best-selling novel Daughter of Fortune.

I was ​previously ​a producer of the breakout Netflix #1 hit, 1BR (2020), a ‘fresh’ and ‘psychologically nuanced thriller’ (New York Times), and one of Rotten Tomatoes’ Top Movies of 2020.​

As a writer-director, I've had work featured in Vice, Dazed, Kaltblut, i-D magazine and at BAFTA- and BIFA- qualifying film festivals. In 2023, I won The Pitch Film Fund competition for the short film ​’Alice’​. Before that, I studied at the University of Cambridge and later as a Herchel Smith scholar at Harvard University.

Get in touch at:

jaldenfalconerfilm AT gmail.com

NOTHING FITS (2025), Producer, Documentary, Feature (in production)

How fashion and Hollywood shaped our perceptions and desires about our bodies.

Director: Jennifer Holness. Prod companies: Geena Davis Institute, Rose Pictures, Besties Make Movies.

Variety: Geena Davis Institute to Tackle Jennifer Holness Doc on ‘Harmful’ Beauty Standards in Hollywood and Fashion.

THE COLOUR OF MY ROOM (2025), Writer-Director, 16mm, 5.1, 16mins

When Sylvie’s best friend comes to visit her on the coast, it exposes just how far the gulf between their lives has grown.

Featuring: Elaine Cassidy (A Discovery of Witches, The Wonder, The Others), Sharon Rose (Sylvia, Hamilton (West End)), Martin Mora.

Producers: Freddie Highmore, Claire Londy, R Gutteridge, B Alden Falconer. Prod companies: Alfresco Pictures & Cleo Films.

Festivals:

Hollyshorts* - London, UK
Nitehawk Shorts Festival - New York City, USA
British Shorts Berlin - Berlin, Germany
New Filmmakers Los Angeles - LA, USA
Little Venice Film Festival - London UK (WINNER - Best Narrative Film)
Kerry International Festival - Killarney, Ireland
Big Apple Film Festival - New York City, USA
Phoenix Film Festival - Arizona, USA
Paris International Film Festival - Paris, France
Beeston Film Festival** - Nottingham, UK (Special Mention)
Sunrise Film Festival** - Lowestoft, UK
British Short Film Awards - London, UK (Listed for best Cinematography)

* BAFTA-qualifying festival
** BIFA-qualifying festival

Press:

Panavision
Kodak

ALICE (2024), Writer-Director, DCP, 5.1, 14mins

After selling a story to the tabloids about her celebrity daughter, Alice has to wrestle with the tragic consequences.

Winner of the Pitch Film Fund UK.

Featuring: Lindsey Coulson (Waterloo Road, Bulletproof, EastEnders), David Westhead (Enola Holmes, Bodyguard), Lonnee Archibong.

Director of Photography: Adam Barnett. Producers: Luke Walton, Jackie Sheppard

Festivals:

British Shorts Berlin - Berlin, Germany
Northeast International Film Festival - Newcastle, UK*
Fastnet Film Festival - Ireland
Flickers Rhode Island - RI USA (Special Mention)

*BIFA-qualifying festival

Press:

Variety – Pitch Film Fund awards

MOTHER’S DAY (2022), Writer-Director, 16mm, 3mins

Anthology Film Archives (May 2015)

WELCOME BACK TO MY CHANNEL (2022), Writer-Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Clash Magazine: 0171 Share Startling New Short Film

FEATURE: 1BR (2020, Netflix), Producer, 1h30min

Seeking her independence, a young woman moves to Los Angeles and settles into a cozy apartment complex with a disturbing sense of community.

Reached the #1 position on Netflix. A ‘fresh’ and ‘psychologically nuanced thriller’ (New York Times), and one of Rotten Tomatoes’ Top Movies of 2020.
Featuring: Nicole Brydon Bloom (Paradise, Gilded Age). Directed by David Marmor.

Press:

New York Times: ‘1BR’: Losing Much More Than the Security Deposit

New York Times: Scary Movies for When the World Is a Fright

Forbes: This Unknown Horror Movie Just Nabbed The #1 Spot On Netflix

Daily Beast: A Sex-Cult Horror Story Blending Scientology and NXIVM

RogerEbert.com: 1BR Review

Hollywood Reporter: 1BR Review

Variety: Best Horror Movies on Netflix

Vanity Fair: New on Netflix

Thrillist: Best Horror Movies of 2020

Netflix link

I, TONY (2020), Producer, Documentary, 16mins

Now 85, a once famous yet still ambitious fashion photographer dreams of making a biopic based on his life but struggles with losing creative control to the two female filmmakers that are up for the task.

Directed by Argyro Nicolaou and Margaux Fitoussi.

Directors Notes: ‘I, Tony’ Is a Meta-Documentary About the Desire to Be Remembered

Festivals:

Official Selection, POFF Shorts 2020
Honorable Mention, LA Greek Film Festival 2020
Official Selection, DC Shorts Film Festival 2020
Opening night film, Lemesos Int’l Doc Fest 2020

FATIMA (2020, Netflix / Universal Pictures), Associate Producer, 1h53min

In 1917 Portugal, three children appear to see a vision of the Virgin Mary, raising doubts among their family and troubling the authorities.

Starring Harvey Keitel (Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and Sonia Braga (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Kiss of the Spider Woman). Original music by Andrea Bocelli. Directed by Marco Pontecorvo.

Guardian: Fatima review – miracle movie plays down the transcendence

RogerEbert.com: Fatima review

Deadline: ‘Fatima’ Review: A Religious Miracle In Portugal A Century Ago Gets An Inspired Retelling For Today

Netflix link

THE CHAPERONE (2019, Amazon Original (UK) / PBS (US)), Associate Producer, 1h48min

From Julian Fellowes (Gilded Age, Downton Abbey). Louise (Haley Lu Richardson), a rebellious teenager desiring fame and fortune, gets a chance to travel to New York and study with a leading dance troupe. Things change when she is accompanied by a watchful chaperone, Norma (Elizabeth McGovern).

Directed by Michael Engler (Gilded Age, 30 Rock, Downton Abbey).

New York Observer: ‘The Chaperone’ Is a Sublime Account of Flapper Icon Louise Brooks’ Early Life

The Guardian: The Chaperone review – dishing dirt in well-turned hats and hair

Wall Street Journal: ‘The Chaperone’ Review: Traveling Companions With Baggage

Amazon link

RED LIGHT (2020), Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Vice magazine: Red Light premiere

The Line of Best Fit: Beguiling bedroom-pop duo 0171 release the surging “Red Light”

AUTOMATIC (2020), Writer-Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Clash Magazine: 0171 Share Dazzling ‘Automatic’ Video

Line of Best Fit: London duo 0171 shake off reality in nihilistic new track “Automatic”

PHOTOGRAPH (2020), Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Line of Best Fit: 0171 get wistful in their poppy new single "Photograph"

DIY Mag: With ‘Photograph’ out now, meet the futuristic-pop duo 0171

FOLLOW (2020), Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Wonderland: 0171: Hackney-hailed duo talk new single “Photograph” and their upcoming EP

Line of Best Fit: Hackney duo 0171 tantalise in the futuristic power pop of “Follow”

DIY Mag: The Neu Bulletin (0171)

SMTHN RL (2019), Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

i-D / Vice magazine: 0171 makes futuristic pop music about intimacy and the internet

1000 WORDS (2019), Director, Music video (Artist: 0171)

Dazed & Confused magazine: ‘1000 words’ Video Premiere

Kaltblut magazine: Press Play: 0171 – ‘1000 Words’

Line of Best Fit: 0171's debut track "1000 Words" is unlike anything you've ever heard before

FIRST REFORMED (2017, A24 / Killer Films), Actor + Assistant to Producer, 1h53min

From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Directed by Paul Schrader.

Rolling Stone: Best Films of the Decade 2010s

New York Times: Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too

New Yorker: The Reckless Passions of Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”

LA Times: The bracing ‘First Reformed’ resurrects Paul Schrader’s career

CADILLAC: ‘ARABS OF NEW YORK’ (2017), Commercial, NY Producer

Vogue magazine: These Arabs of New York Are In the Spotlight

Esquire magazine: Arabs of New York celebrates ‘daring greatly’

BONZO + MUTTMA (2016), Writer-Director, 14mins

Bonzo & Muttma are the only ones left living in the ugliest building in all the city. But on the eve of the demolition, Bonzo takes matters into his own hands.
Featuring: Pamela Jayne Morgan (Fleishman is in Trouble, The Holdovers) and James DeFilippi. With special thanks to Guy Maddin (Rumours, My Winnipeg).

Carpenter Center Visual Arts, MA (May 2016)

OF ALL THINGS VISIBLE (2015), Writer-Director, 11mins

A student returns to her grandmother’s house in Maine to pack away her things, but finds herself plunged into an odyssey of childhood memories.
With special thanks to Guy Maddin (Rumours, My Winnipeg).

Carpenter Center Visual Arts, MA (December 2015)

SCRUBBING THE ZINC (2015), Writer-Director, 9mins