December 2006
 Lisa
Jackson (Ojibwe) won the 2005 Vancouver Arts Award
for Most Promising Media Artist, and the Alliance Atlantis Mentorship
Award at the 2004 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. She
was selected to participate in the 2005 Berlinale Talent Campus
and was one of 21 emerging Canadian filmmakers selected to attend
the Talent Lab at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.
Her short film Suckerfish was funded by the National Film
Board of Canada and BC Film through the 2003 "Picture This"
competition. Jackson is a member of the Documentary Organization
of Canada, Women in Film and Video Vancouver, and Cineworks Independent
Filmmakers Society. She worked for seven years with the media
team of Open Learning Agency, a group that produces educational
content including animation for television and Internet broadcast.
Jackson received a B.A. in film and history from Simon Fraser
University and has studied film production at Galiano Island Film
School and Vancouver Film School. She lives in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
"It's such a privilege to tell people's stories. I'm driven
to ask questions and provoke thought about issues I feel passionately
about, and to reach people in their gut, whether it's with laughter,
anger, or tears."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Lisa
Jackson - courtesy of the filmmaker
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