Lisa Jackson (filmmaker)

Lisa Jackson is a Canadian Screen Award and Genie Award-winning Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast on APTN and Knowledge Network, as well as CBC's ZeD, Canadian Reflections and Newsworld and have screened at festivals including HotDocs, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Melbourne, Worldwide Short Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

Her recent VR piece Biidaban: First Light premiered at Tribeca, won a Canadian Screen Award, and was nominated for a Webby Award. Her multimedia work Transmissions, an immersive film installation presented by the Electric Company Theatre premiered in Vancouver in September 2019. Her recent IMAX short film Lichen premiered in April 2019, as part of Outer Worlds, a commissioned project featuring the work of five artists including Michael Snow.