RAVEN JACKSON
AND NIGHT CIRCLES

Pre-production grant: funds will be used towards securing a location and crew for the shoot.

The Project: From their bedroom window, Sadie, 12, and Misha, 5, watch the lights of their father’s car back out of their home’s driveway. Spill across their faces. For these sisters, their father leaving is a doorway opening. AND NIGHT CIRCLES explores what lingers and lurks in the night and how two young girls process their grief.

The Filmmaker: A native of Tennessee, Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, as well as the body’s relationship to nature. A participant of Film at Lincoln Center’s 2019 Artist Academy during the 57th New York Film Festival, her debut feature, all dirt roads taste of salt, was handpicked by Barry Jenkins for Indie Memphis’ 2019 Black Filmmaker Residency in Screenwriting and one of five films selected for the 2019 Ikusmira Berriak Residency in San Sebastián, Spain. Her work has screened at key festivals and venues worldwide, including BAM, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Slamdance, and Metrograph. Her chapbook of poetry, little violences, is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine. Raven is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York University’s Graduate Film Program and the New School’s Writing Program.

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