Lisa Jackson
Directing
Named one of 10 to Watch by Playback Magazine in 2012, Lisa Jackson comes from a background in documentary, including the CTV "W5 Presents" 1-hour RESERVATION SOLDIERS and acclaimed short SUCKERFISH, and expanded into fiction with SAVAGE, which won a 2010 Genie award for Best Short Film. Jackson’s 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 co-wrote an episode of the 1-hour 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 8-part docudrama series 1491, based on Charles C. Mann’s best-selling book.
Jackson’s 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 Centre’s Directors’ Lab, and works in both fiction and documentary. She is the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institute's Aboriginal Documentary Training Program.
Known for
Wilfred Buck
March 18, 2024
Parkdale
June 29, 2011
Savage
October 17, 2009
Snare
January 1, 2013
The Embargo Project
May 6, 2015
Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier
October 29, 2017
I Pity The Country
The Visit
October 18, 2009
Lichen
April 18, 2019
Biidaaban: First Light
August 16, 2018
Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories
February 13, 2025
Andrew Dawes: Dynamic Range
June 1, 2013
Behind the camera18
- 2025Wilfred Buck’s Star Stories Director
- 2024Wilfred Buck Director
- 2019Lichen Director, Writer
- 2018Biidaaban: First Light Director, Story, Creative Director
- 2017Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier Writer, Director
- 2016The Dust Bowl Director
- 2016Restoration Director
- 2015The Embargo Project Director
- 2014Intemperance Director, Writer
- 2014How a People Live