We would like to extend a warm thank you to Kourtney Jackson, who was our Assistant Programming/Equipment Coordinator for the past two years! Kourtney was absolutely incredible in supporting our team during the strangest of times (lockdowns, location moves, running virtual programs, etc.) and you will be sorely missed. Sending many well wishes to you for all the new milestones to come!
Kourtney is a wonderful filmmaker in her own right, with her film Wash Day sweeping the globe in 2020/2021. Kourtney Jackson is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker interested in hybridized, experimental forms of storytelling. As a self-taught filmmaker, she wrote, directed, and shot her first short film 1 vers[us] 1 in the spring of 2018. The film had its World Premiere at the Regent Park Film Festival where she won the Emerging Directors Spotlight Pitch Competition to fund and create her second film, Wash Day—an award-winning short documentary that indicted her as one of ten 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellows. She also served as a Story Editor in the second season development room of CBC Gem’s Next Stop, as well as the Story Coordinator/Writer for the second season development room of KindaTV’s Gay Mean Girls.
