Kourtney Jackson biography
Kourtney Jackson is a Toronto-based artist, writer and filmmaker interested in hybridized, experimental forms of storytelling. She received her Bachelour of Arts in Communication Studies from Concordia University in 2018. She is 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 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.
Outside of filmmaking, Kourtney continues her videography practice in theatre, integrating documentary media and community outreach to ideate accessible storytelling in the performance arts, particularly through Theatre Passe Muraille’s Accessibility Lab series. Through film and other lens-based media, Kourtney continues to explore the nuances in her ethnic, cultural, and spiritual identity.
Image: Wash Day, film, 9m, 52s, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.