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April 2005
 Dawn
Jackson (Ojibwe) is a global project manager with the
Walt Disney Company, where she acts as a mentor for the ABC/Disney
New Talent Development Program. She is also the Vice-Chairman
of First Americans in the Arts (FAITA), which she co-founded in
1991; FAITA gives annual awards recognizing Native American achievement
in the entertainment industry. Jackson has worked as a producer
in feature film and animated television series such as Captain
Planet and The Real Ghostbusters. She was the executive
producer of Naturally Native, which won the Producers Award
at the 1998 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. Jackson
is serving her third term as the community-elected Los Angeles
City/County Indian Commissioner, and allocates federal funding
for indigenous city residents. She has chaired the American Indian
College's Flame of Hope gala in New York. Jackson is a member
of the Producers Guild of America, Women in Film, the NAACP and
the National Congress of American Indians. She received her BFA
from the Fashion and Art Institute of Dallas. She lives in Los
Angeles, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona and Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
"As a creative person the main thing I have learned is to
let your unique vision and voice be evident in all that you create.
As a Native American woman filmmaker I want to focus on what that
unique vision is and not see myself at a disadvantage. No one
else will ever be able to create the exact same image or depict
a story in the same way. That is the beauty that each and every
one of us has to bring to the screen, canvas, or page."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Dawn Jackson - courtesy of the filmmaker
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