Named one of 10 to Watch by Playback Magazine in 2012 Lisa Jackson comes from a background in documentary including the CTV W5 Presents 1hour RESERVATION SOLDIERS and acclaimed short SUCKERFISH and expanded into fiction with SAVAGE which won a 2010 Genie award for Best Short Film Jacksons work has played at festivals internationally including the Berlinale SXSW London BFI HotDocs and Edinburgh as well as broadcast on CBC CTV TMN Bravo Knowledge SCN and APTN In 2013 she cowrote an episode of the 1hour teen supernatural series THE RECKONER Her short satire INTEMPERANCE premiered at imagineNATIVE as part of their Embargo Collective II commission project and she directed 21 drama segments for the 8part docudrama series 1491 based on Charles C Manns bestselling book Jacksons films have garnered numerous awards and in 2012 the ReelWorld Festival named her a Trailblazer She is Anishinaabe has a BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University has completed the Canadian Film Centres Directors Lab and works in both fiction and documentary She is the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institutes Aboriginal Documentary Training Program
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