Savanna Jones is an award-winning cinematographer and FAA-certified drone operator based in Biloxi, Mississippi, widely recognized as one of the region's top wedding and creative portrait photographers. Savanna has worked on series including Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (FOX), The First 48 (ITV) and has filmed cinematography for FOX Sports.
Savanna was honored as one of *Gulf Coast Woman Magazine*’s "100 Successful Women to Know 2024" - one of the recipients out of 800 nominated women. She is a four-time Telly Award winner, the Vice President of the Mississippi Film Alliance, and was selected as one of 14 for the NFL Films Women in Sports Filmmaking Experienceship 2025 in New Jersey.
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.
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