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Filmmaker Bio
LISA F. JACKSON has been involved in documentary filmmaking for
over 30 years. Her work has brought her many awards including
three Emmy nominations, two Emmy® awards and four CINE Golden
Eagles. Tom Shales of the Washington Post has praised her
documentaries as "superb" and "outstanding," John O'Connor
commented in the New York Times that "producer/director Lisa
Jackson is remarkably adept in getting her subjects to speak
frankly and thoughtfully," and the Christian Science Monitor
noted that she takes on difficult subjects "with intelligence and
courage."
Jackson studied filmmaking at MIT with Ricky Leacock and has
directed and/or edited dozens of films for PBS including: Voices
and Visions: Emily Dickinson, Jackson Pollock: Portrait, Through
Madness (1993 NYC Emmy® winner), The Creative Spirit,
Storytellers, The Van Cliburn Piano Competition; Bill Moyers'
Journal, the prize-winning series The Mind, and segments for
Sesame Street and Live from Lincoln Center.
She most recently completed a feature length documentary that she
shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the fate of women and
girls in that country's intractable war. "The Greatest Silence:
Rape in the Congo" won a Special Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival. She produced and directed Meeting with a Killer:
One Family's Journey (2001 Emmy® Award nominee) for Court TV; Life
Afterlife, a 90-minute Special for HBO; The Secret Life of Barbie
(1999 Emmy® Award winner) for ABC News; Addicted and Why Am I Gay?
for HBO's "America Undercover" series; No Money, Mo' Problems
and Smart Sex for the MTV series "True Life"; The Other Epidemic
for ABC News; Firefighters for The Learning Channel; A Passion to
Play for ABC Sports; Anatomy of a Baseball Trade for HBO Sports;
segments for EGG, the PBS arts series; five episodes in the
Hallmark Channel's acclaimed Adoption series, including stories
shot in Siberia and Guatemala; and national PSA's for the Office
for Victims of Crime. Jackson produced and directed a new
documentary series about ordinary people who have won the
Carnegie Medal for heroism that will air on the Hallmark Channel
in 2008 and is currently working on a film about a group of
displaced women living in the slums of Bogotá, Colombia.
Jackson's awards include an Emmy® Award for Outstanding
Informational Special ('99); a New York City Emmy ('93); three
CINE Golden Eagles; four Houston International Film Festival,
Gold Awards; a Silver Chris Award from the Columbus International
Film Festival; a Planned Parenthood "Maggie" Award for
Outstanding Documentary; two Gold Clarion Awards from Women in
Communications; Audience Choice Awards from the Vancouver,
Breckenridge and Cinequest film festivals and a Movies That
Matter Award from Amnesty International. She has screened her
work and lectured at the Columbia University School of
Journalism, New York University, Harvard University and was a
visiting professor of documentary film at the School for Visual
Arts in Manhattan.
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