http://www.lisajackson.ca lisajackson.ca Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:08 +0000 http://www.lisajackson.ca en http://lisajackson.ca/Governor-General-s-Award-Video http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Governor-General-s-Award-Video Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:36:08 +0000 lisajackson.ca 5774307 Andrew Dawes: Dynamic Range by ONFB , National Film Board of Canada This short film pays tribute to the distinguished violinist Andrew Dawes. One of the finest violinists Canada has ever produced, Dawes is known for his technical excellence, musical integrity, and excitement of performance. In a career spanning half a century, he has inspired listeners, students, and fellow musicians around the globe. Here, poetic images bring to life Dawes’ early years, as he muses on the ineffability of music and the discipline required to become an accomplished player. Produced by the NFB in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation on the occasion of the 2013 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. Andrew Dawes: Dynamic Range by ONFB , National Film Board of Canada This short film pays tribute to the distinguished violinist Andrew Dawes. One of the finest... http://lisajackson.ca/How-a-People-Live http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/How-a-People-Live Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:14:23 +0000 lisajackson.ca 4697670 A one-hour documentary tracing the history of the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw First Nation, who the Canadian government forcibly relocated from their traditional territories on the coast of British Columbia in 1964. Candid and moving interviews, striking archival films and photos dating back over 100 years, and a visit to their stunning "Homelands" bring to life the story of a people known for their theatrical dances, their strong connection to the land, and the strength that has enabled them to overcome incredible hardships, including disease, residential school and having their villages burned down. In 1970, a former Indian Agent wrote a controversial book he said was based on the lives of these people and titled it, "How a People Die." Forty years later, this film shows us their traditional life and culture as well as the traumas that threatened to destroy them, to see how a people live. 59:05 mins | HD Video | 2013 <img src="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/5/181345/4697670/aa_01095.jpg" width="670" height="547" width_o="2048" height_o="1673" src_o="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/5/181345/4697670/aa_01095_o.jpg" data-mid="25038967" border="0" align="left"/> A one-hour documentary tracing the history of the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw First Nation, who the Canadian government forcibly relocated from their traditional... http://lisajackson.ca/Snare http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Snare Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:41:43 +0000 lisajackson.ca 4697425 Spare and visually-arresting, with a haunting soundtrack, SNARE is a performance-based piece that captures the brutality of violence against aboriginal women, as well as the possibility of healing and grace. 3.5 mins | HD Video | 2013 Note: Original silent 1-minute version commissioned by the Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative, screened at imagineNATIVE 2012, as well as on the Toronto subway system and in malls across Canada. <img src="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/5/181345/4697425/SNARE still small.jpg" width="670" height="445" width_o="945" height_o="628" src_o="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/5/181345/4697425/SNARE still small_o.jpg" data-mid="25038058" border="0" align="left"/> Spare and visually-arresting, with a haunting soundtrack, SNARE is a performance-based piece that captures the brutality of violence against aboriginal women, as... http://lisajackson.ca/CFC-Film-Exercise-Clips http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/CFC-Film-Exercise-Clips Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:36:45 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2569712 Canadian Film Centre Short Exercise Films - Excerpts from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. A selection of clips from four exercise films made during my Directors' Lab residency at the Canadian Film Centre in 2010. Canadian Film Centre Short Exercise Films - Excerpts from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. A selection of clips from four exercise films made during my Directors' Lab... http://lisajackson.ca/My-First-Film-Naked-Rusty http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/My-First-Film-Naked-Rusty Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:44:06 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2553205 This is NAKED RUSTY, made with Steve Daniels in a week at the Galiano Film & Television School. We shot Super 8 and hand developed the film in buckets. All the sound was added in post. 5 mins | Super 8 | 2000 This is NAKED RUSTY, made with Steve Daniels in a week at the Galiano Film & Television School. We shot Super 8 and hand developed the film in buckets. All the... http://lisajackson.ca/Vancouver-Community-College http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Vancouver-Community-College Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:23:28 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2542965 Vancouver Community College Aboriginal Education Video from Phillip Djwa on Vimeo. Promo video for Vancouver Community College Aboriginal Program. Produced by Agentic Communications. 6 mins | HD Video | 2010 Vancouver Community College Aboriginal Education Video from Phillip Djwa on Vimeo. Promo video for Vancouver Community College Aboriginal Program. Produced by... http://lisajackson.ca/IAHLA-Promo http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/IAHLA-Promo Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:47:19 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2542808 Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association from Phillip Djwa on Vimeo. An introductory video for IAHLA (the Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association of BC). Produced by Agentic Communications. 13 mins | Video | 2007 Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association from Phillip Djwa on Vimeo. An introductory video for IAHLA (the Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association... http://lisajackson.ca/Suckerfish http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Suckerfish Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:46:39 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2540995 Suckerfish clip from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. When she was ten, Lisa Jackson fled Toronto to live with relatives in Vancouver to escape her mother's depression, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse - legacies of the residential school experience. Now, sifting through her memories and her mother's letters, she constructs a portrait of a mother whose drive to love her daughter triumphed over her demons of addiction. Animation, childhood photographs and stylized recreations add the young child's whimsical voice to this moving, at times humorous, look at the director's relationship to her mother and native identity. 8 mins | Video | 2004 Distributors: National Film Board of Canada, Documentary Educational Resources 60+ festival screenings, including Hot Docs, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Margaret Mead. See list below. Broadcast on CBC, Knowledge Network, APTN. "... an impossibly concise meditation on extremely complex issues of ethnic identity and kinship. Jackson finds the humor in the often heavy topic of heritage..."- Melanie Turpin, Report on the 2004 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival "... poignant, tender, and relevant."- Spirit Magazine, Winter, 2005 Screenings HotDocs Worldwide Short Film Festival Innoversity Creative Summit Yorkton Film & Video Festival Melbourne International Film Festival Edinburgh International Film Festival Vancouver International Film Festival Atlantic Film Festival Edmonton Film Festival ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival Hysteria Women's Festival Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival Detroit Docs American Indian Film FEstival Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film & Video Festival Australian International Documentary Conference Berlin International Students Documentary Conference Satellite Short Film FEstival Palm Springs Native American Film Festival Dawson City Short Film Festival Moving Pictures Travelling Film Festival Cine Las Americas (Austin) Bringing Youth Towards Equality Screening Jacksonville Film Festival Native Voice Film Festival Urban Shaman Gallery Dreamspeakers Film Festival Female Eye Film Festival Montreal First Peoples Festival Reel Venus Film Festival Pärnu Int'l Documentary & Anthropology Film Festival (Estonia) Rhode Island Film Festival Dokufest (Kosovo) Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico (Brazil) San Diego Film Festival National Geographic All Roads Film Fest Int'l Documentary Film Fest New Zealand Black Earth Film Festival (Illinois) Ojai Film Festival Calgary International Film Festival United Nations Association Film Festival (Calif.) Riddu Riddu Indigenous Film Festival (Norway) Museum of Ontario Archaeology Film Series National Women's Studies Assoc. Conference (Chicago) Native American Film and Video Festival (NYC) Global Voices Int'l Documentary Film Fest (Harvard University) World Performing Arts Festival 2006 (Pakistan) Heard Museum Film Festival (Arizona) Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase (New Mexico) Tabor Film Festival (Croatia) Artsfest Film Festival (Pennsylvania) WorldFilm 2006 (Estonia) Washington DC Independent Film Festival Women of Color Film Festival (Berkeley) Society for Visual Anthropology/American Anthropological Assn. Film Fest (Washington, DC) First Nations Film and Video Festival (Chicago) Santa Barbara Museum of Art "First Seen" Film Series Suckerfish clip from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. When she was ten, Lisa Jackson fled Toronto to live with relatives in Vancouver to escape her mother's depression,... http://lisajackson.ca/Savage http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Savage Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:46:37 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2542524 SAVAGE from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain. In a place like this, there aren’t many chances to be a kid. But, when no one’s watching… A residential school musical. 6 mins | HD Video | 2009 Commissioned as part of the imagineNATIVE Film Festival's Embargo Collective. Distributor: Ouat Media / Educational Distributor: Moving Images Distribution Broadcast on Bravo! Screened at 40+ festivals, including Berlinale Forum Expanded, SXSW, London BFI, New York International Children's Festival. Full list below. Awards 2010 Genie Award for Best Short Film Golden Sheaf Award for Best Multicultural Film ReelWorld Outstanding Canadian Short Film Leo Awards for Best Actress and Best Editing. "Award-winning filmmaker Lisa Jackson delivers one of the most original short films of the year in the form of a residential school musical.” - Atlantic Film Festival “An awesome reinvention of genre that uses heavy metal, zombies and hip-hop dance moves to communicate thought control, hunger and abuse.”- WSFF Best of the Fest “A beautiful and surprising Ghost Dance.”- Northwest Film & Video Festival "It's an amazingly effective use of a scifi trope to convey the historical reality of Native Americans/First Nations people who were taken to boarding schools, yet the film as a whole is so subtle and leaves room for the viewer, so that it doesn't become overly didactic or preachy."- Fantasy Matters Blog "Co-opting the denigrating term "savage" for the title, Lisa Jackson turns the tables on the language of colonization and captures our attention. Meeting creative challenges posed in a powerful way and then dubbing the resulting film as "a residential school musical," turns our heads again. Without trivializing a dark part of Canada's history, SAVAGE invites the viewer to reconsider residential schools in a way that pushes the boundaries of thought. While exploring creative perimeters, the film muses on the capacity of children to harness the power of imagination as shelter from the most unpleasant of circumstances." - Sylvia Jonescu Lisitza, Moving Images Distribution Festivals 2009 imagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto, Canada – World Premiere 2010 Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany – International Premiere Best of the Fest, Winnipeg, Canada South by Southwest, Austin, Texas – US Premiere Women in Film & Television Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival, Duncan, Canada Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada Samisk Film Festival, Samisk Høgskole, Norway Wairoa Maori Film Festival, Aotearoa, New Zealand CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada Free Range Film Festival, Wrenshall, MN, USA WSFF Best of the Fest, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver, Canada All Roads Film Festival, Washington, DC, USA Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada 54th BFI London Film Festival, London, UK Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, AB, Canada Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS, Canada Native Spirit Film Festival, London, UK Local Sightings, Seattle, WA, USA Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden Festival International du Film d’Amiens, Amiens, France Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Alberta, Canada 37th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland, OR, USA American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Manitoba, Canada 2011 Yellowknife Film Festival, NWT, Canada Birds Eye View Film Festival, London, UK Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico New York International Children’s Film Festival, New York, NY Native American Film & Video Festival, New York, NY ReelWorld Film Festival, Toronto, Canada Tulsa International Film Festival, Tulsa, Oklahoma Biindigaate Film Festival, Thunder Bay, ON Native Eyes Film Showcase, Tucson, AZ Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada Cool Connections (SXSW Shorts), Moscow, Russia Panorama at UNESCO – International Academy Films, Paris, France 2012 REELkids Film Festival, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Cinefest Sudbury Film Festival SAVAGE from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen... http://lisajackson.ca/Parkdale http://lisajackson.ca/following/lisajackson.ca/Parkdale Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:46:37 +0000 lisajackson.ca 2541060 PARKDALE excerpts from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. An unexpected phone call sends two sisters out into the inner city streets as they try to escape another stint in foster care. Over the course of the night, their journey reveals the community of their gritty neighbourhood, and how easily innocence can be lost. PARKDALE takes an intimate look at the complex territory of the inner city, where the right choices aren’t always easy, or obvious. 14:45 mins | 35mm | 2011 Canadian Film Centre (CFC) Dramatic Film Program Distributor: Canadian Film Centre Producer: Lauren Grant and Lori Lozinski | Writer: Lisa Jackson and Bonnie Fairweather | Editor: Kye Meechan | Cinematographer: Daniel Grant | Production Design: Chris Crane Cast: Sara Brynn Foster (Sam) and Cassidi Hoag (Abby) "As with Savage, Jackson successfully undertakes a worthy, powerful message in her small-scale drama: she can make a succinct point in a medium that takes other artists a feature length." - cinemablographer.com Broadcast CBC Canadian Reflections The Movie Network (upcoming) Screenings Vancouver International Film Festival imagineNATIVE Vancouver Women in Film Festival (VWIFF) Reel2Real International Youth Film Festival Hamilton International Film Festival CFC Worldwide Biindigaate Film Festival Northwest Filmmakers Festival Vancouver Indigenous Media Festival Breakthroughs Film Festival Awards Vancouver Women in Film First Place Legacy Award Vancouver Women in Film Best Performance in a Short Award (Sara Brynn Foster) Reel2Real International Youth Film Festival, Most Inspirational Short Film Award Nominated Best Aboriginal Film, Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards Young Artists Award, Best Performance in a Short Film (Cassidi Hoag) PARKDALE excerpts from Lisa Jackson on Vimeo. An unexpected phone call sends two sisters out into the inner city streets as they try to escape another stint in...