Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010.
Savage, a film by
NSI Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program graduate Lisa Jackson screens at
South by Southwest (SXSW) March 12-20 in the Narrative Shorts category.
The winner of the grand jury award in that category is eligible for a 2011 Academy Award® nomination for "Best Narrative Short."
Savage is a residential school musical, commissioned through the
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and had its European premiere at the Berlinale, Forum Expanded.
Lisa's first short film
Suckfish screened at over 60 festivals
and aired in Canada on CBC, APTN, and Knowledge Network. Her
award-winning 2007 documentary
Reservation Soldiers premiered on CTV's
"W5 Presents'.
Her recent projects include the
short animation The Visit, and Pushing the Line: Art Without Reservations, an arts documentary for Bravo! Channel.
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