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Raven Jackson
Directing · Born 1990-01-01 · Tennessee, USA
Biography
Raven Jackson is an American award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, as well as the body's relationship to nature. Her short films Nettles and A Guide to Breathing Underwater are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. She is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York University's Graduate Film Program and the New School's Writing Program. Her chapbook of poetry, little violences, is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine. Raven’s debut narrative feature, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, made in partnership with Maria Altamirano, PASTEL, and A24, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The film has received support from Cinereach, SFFILM, the Gotham, Film Independent, Tribeca Film Institute, New Orleans Film Society, Ikusmira Berriak, Indie Memphis, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and Westridge Foundation.
Known for

Surface
Story Editor

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Writer

House of Teeth
Boom Operator

St. Michael's Intern
Director of Photography
The Babysitter
Sound Mixer
Soñadora
Sound Mixer

Røtter
Director

A Guide to Breathing Underwater
Producer

Nettles
Writer
Filmography
- 2025St. Michael's InternDirector of Photography
- 2023All Dirt Roads Taste of SaltWriter
- 2022SurfaceStory Editor
- 2019RøtterDirector
- 2018A Guide to Breathing UnderwaterProducer
- 2018NettlesWriter
- 2017The BabysitterSound Mixer
- 2017SoñadoraSound Mixer
- 2017House of TeethBoom Operator
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