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March 2006
 Dennis
Jackson (Cree/Salteaux) co-founded Dark Thunder Productions
with producer and editor Melanie Jackson, to create documentaries
and animations. Their film Wapos Bay: There is No "I"
in Hockey has been broadcast throughout Canada on APTN. In
2005 their film Ekospi Namew: At the Time of the Sturgeon
won a jury award at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. In 2004 Jackson was chosen to participate
in the National Screen Institute—Canada Aboriginal Cultural
Trade Initiative, now called NSI Storytellers, an exchange program
for First Nations and Maori filmmakers. The Dark Thunder animation
Christmas at Wapos Bay won both the Best of Saskatchewan
and Best Children's Production Awards at the 2002 Yorkton Short
Film and Video Festival. For television, Jackson directed the
series Heartbeat of the Earth, winner of the APTN/Telefilm Canada
Award at the 2000 Banff Television Festival. He was raised in
northern Saskatchewan and lives in Saskatoon.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Dennis
Jackson - courtesy of the filmmaker; Dennis Jackson - photograph
by Amalia Cordova, NMAI
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