kourtney jackson
(un)braiding mythsabout films
Education
2016-18 Concordia University, BA Communication Studies
Filmography
meditations on a process (2023)
(for Transformations: A Cross Generational Commissioning Project by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto [LIFT])
Screenings:
2023 Transformations: Short Films Exploring a City in Flux, LIFT, Toronto, ON
Cerca De Ti (2023) (commissioned by the 8 fest)
Festivals:
2023 the 8 fest, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2023 Shorts in Conversation, Ace Hotel, Toronto, ON
In My Bones (2021) (co-directed with Roya DelSol)
Festivals:
2022 Images Festival, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2022 Camel Cafe, Toronto, ON
Wash Day (2020)
Festivals:
2022 Filmladen Kassel e.V., Kassel, DE
2022 Massimadi Festival, Montreal, QC
2021 Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Dortmund, DE
2021 Black Film Festival Zurich, Zurich, CHE
2021 Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Dortmund, DE
2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE
2021 Dawson City Film Festival, Dawson, YT
2021 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, USA
2021 CineYouth Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2021 Reelout Queer Film Festival, Kingston, ON
2020 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), Seattle, USA
2020 Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, Baltimore, USA
2020 BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
2020 Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 AfroPrairie Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2020 TIFF Next Wave Film Festival, Young Creators Showcase, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2023 All Those Sensations in My Body, Dotdotdot, Vienna, AUT
2023 Queer City Cinema (Balkan touring program)
2023 Queer City Cinema (Canadian touring program)
2021 Ignite x Adobe Shorts Screening, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA
2021 Femtastic Film Club, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, MB
2021 Hairstory Short Film Drive-In, African American Museum, Dallas, USA
2020 SKIN DEEP, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON
2020 All Things Hairs, Plump! Sessions, London, ON
2020 Manifesto Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 Black History Month Program, Civic Theatre, Nelson, BC
2019 what if media looked like us? london edition, sisterhood media, London, ON
VOD:
Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox - Black Futures on Film, Black Canadian Shorts
sisterhoodmediaTV
CBC Gem
1 vers[us] 1 (2018)
Festivals:
2019 Insomniac Film Festival
2019 Breakthroughs Film Festival
2019 AfroPrairie Film Festival
2018 Regent Park Film Festival, Emerging Director’s Spotlight, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2021 Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada, Cinema Politica, Montreal, QC
2019 DON’T @ ME, Black Artists Union, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2019 what if media looked like us? scarborough edition, sisterhood media, Scarborough, ON
VOD:
sisterhoodmediaTV
Awards
2020 Best Canadian Film, Wash Day, Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 Audience Choice Award, Wash Day, Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2018 Emerging Directors Spotlight Award, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, ON
Grants
2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Artist Grant, Sundance Institute, Park City, USA
2019 CUE Artist Grant, CUE Toronto, Toronto, ON
Residencies & Fellowships
2022 Silence Awareness Existence, Arteles Creative Center, Tampere, FI
2020-21 Fellow, Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, Park City, USA
2019 Resident, Black Women Film! Canada Leadership Program, Toronto, ON
Credits
Next Stop: Season 2 - Story Editor, Writer
Gay Mean Girls: Season 2 - Story Coordinator, Writer
IPHIGENIA AND THE FURIES (ON TAURIAN LAND) (2019), Saga Collectif and lemonTree Creations - Associate Producer
Group Exhibitions
2024 Shedding Heaviness, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2022 for those of us who live at the shoreline, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2019 Stick It to The Man, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON
Artist Talks and Panels
2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Shorts Screening, Q&A, Park City, USA
2021 Cartography and Hybridism of the Female Body, Art Without Borders - Black Brazil Art, Brazil
2020 Short Film Distribution Panel, sisterhood media at Bend Film Festival, Bend, USA
2020 What A Time to Be Black Artist Panel, Our Women’s Voices X Black Women With Wings, Toronto, ON
Professional Activities
VIDEOGRAPHY
ARTS ADMINISTRATION
OYA Black Arts Coalition, Program Coordinator — present
Pleasure Dome, Board Member — 06/2021 – 06/2023
FEM Script Lab, Creative Producer — 02/2021 – 02/2022
CHARLES STREET VIDEO, Assistant Equipment and Programming Coordinator — 10/2020 – 01/2021
SAGA COLLECTIF (IPHIGENIA AND THE FURIES: ON TAURIAN LAND),
Associate Producer — 10/2018 - 01/2019
CAHOOTS THEATRE, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator — 07/2018 - 08/2018
COMMUNITY ARTS
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE, Youth in Focus Workshop Facilitator — 02/2020 - 11/2020
REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL, School Program Advisory Member — 06/2018 - 07/2019
2016-18 Concordia University, BA Communication Studies
Filmography
meditations on a process (2023)
(for Transformations: A Cross Generational Commissioning Project by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto [LIFT])
Screenings:
2023 Transformations: Short Films Exploring a City in Flux, LIFT, Toronto, ON
Cerca De Ti (2023) (commissioned by the 8 fest)
Festivals:
2023 the 8 fest, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2023 Shorts in Conversation, Ace Hotel, Toronto, ON
In My Bones (2021) (co-directed with Roya DelSol)
Festivals:
2022 Images Festival, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2022 Camel Cafe, Toronto, ON
Wash Day (2020)
Festivals:
2022 Filmladen Kassel e.V., Kassel, DE
2022 Massimadi Festival, Montreal, QC
2021 Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Dortmund, DE
2021 Black Film Festival Zurich, Zurich, CHE
2021 Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Dortmund, DE
2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE
2021 Dawson City Film Festival, Dawson, YT
2021 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, USA
2021 CineYouth Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2021 Reelout Queer Film Festival, Kingston, ON
2020 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), Seattle, USA
2020 Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, Baltimore, USA
2020 BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
2020 Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 AfroPrairie Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2020 TIFF Next Wave Film Festival, Young Creators Showcase, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2023 All Those Sensations in My Body, Dotdotdot, Vienna, AUT
2023 Queer City Cinema (Balkan touring program)
2023 Queer City Cinema (Canadian touring program)
2021 Ignite x Adobe Shorts Screening, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA
2021 Femtastic Film Club, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, MB
2021 Hairstory Short Film Drive-In, African American Museum, Dallas, USA
2020 SKIN DEEP, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON
2020 All Things Hairs, Plump! Sessions, London, ON
2020 Manifesto Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 Black History Month Program, Civic Theatre, Nelson, BC
2019 what if media looked like us? london edition, sisterhood media, London, ON
VOD:
Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox - Black Futures on Film, Black Canadian Shorts
sisterhoodmediaTV
CBC Gem
1 vers[us] 1 (2018)
Festivals:
2019 Insomniac Film Festival
2019 Breakthroughs Film Festival
2019 AfroPrairie Film Festival
2018 Regent Park Film Festival, Emerging Director’s Spotlight, Toronto, ON
Screenings:
2021 Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada, Cinema Politica, Montreal, QC
2019 DON’T @ ME, Black Artists Union, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2019 what if media looked like us? scarborough edition, sisterhood media, Scarborough, ON
VOD:
sisterhoodmediaTV
Awards
2020 Best Canadian Film, Wash Day, Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2020 Audience Choice Award, Wash Day, Breakthroughs Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2018 Emerging Directors Spotlight Award, Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, ON
Grants
2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Artist Grant, Sundance Institute, Park City, USA
2019 CUE Artist Grant, CUE Toronto, Toronto, ON
Residencies & Fellowships
2022 Silence Awareness Existence, Arteles Creative Center, Tampere, FI
2020-21 Fellow, Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, Park City, USA
2019 Resident, Black Women Film! Canada Leadership Program, Toronto, ON
Credits
Next Stop: Season 2 - Story Editor, Writer
Gay Mean Girls: Season 2 - Story Coordinator, Writer
IPHIGENIA AND THE FURIES (ON TAURIAN LAND) (2019), Saga Collectif and lemonTree Creations - Associate Producer
Group Exhibitions
2024 Shedding Heaviness, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2022 for those of us who live at the shoreline, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2019 Stick It to The Man, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON
Artist Talks and Panels
2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Shorts Screening, Q&A, Park City, USA
2021 Cartography and Hybridism of the Female Body, Art Without Borders - Black Brazil Art, Brazil
2020 Short Film Distribution Panel, sisterhood media at Bend Film Festival, Bend, USA
2020 What A Time to Be Black Artist Panel, Our Women’s Voices X Black Women With Wings, Toronto, ON
Professional Activities
VIDEOGRAPHY
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Clients:
Adornment Stories, LGBT Youthline, Theatre Passe Muraille, and BAND Gallery
among others
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Skillset
includes shooting video footage, interviewing video subjects, and creating
works for archival, promotional, and artistic purposes
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Specialization
in documenting theatrical production including archives of performances, and
dramaturgical workshops
ARTS ADMINISTRATION
OYA Black Arts Coalition, Program Coordinator — present
Pleasure Dome, Board Member — 06/2021 – 06/2023
FEM Script Lab, Creative Producer — 02/2021 – 02/2022
CHARLES STREET VIDEO, Assistant Equipment and Programming Coordinator — 10/2020 – 01/2021
SAGA COLLECTIF (IPHIGENIA AND THE FURIES: ON TAURIAN LAND),
Associate Producer — 10/2018 - 01/2019
CAHOOTS THEATRE, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator — 07/2018 - 08/2018
COMMUNITY ARTS
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE, Youth in Focus Workshop Facilitator — 02/2020 - 11/2020
REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL, School Program Advisory Member — 06/2018 - 07/2019