Biography

Jackson Kroopf is a filmmaker and educator working across fiction, documentary, and hybrid forms. His films have screened at BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Outfest, and SFFILM, and have been featured by Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week, and broadcast on PBS. His short film NASIR won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC and was distributed by the Los Angeles Times. He has created performance-centered nonfiction work as a Sundance Institute/NEH Fellow, collaborating closely with elders to explore memory, performance and intergenerational storytelling. Jackson has taught filmmaking at USC, Vassar College, and UC San Diego, as well as in youth and community programs across California and New York. His films have received support from The Sundance Institute, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Mellon Foundation, Frameline, Getty, SCI-Arc, UCLA Film and Television Archives, and the W.K. Rose Fellowship.
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