Raven Jackson

Raven Jackson is an American awardwinning filmmaker poet and photographer from Tennessee Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions as well as the bodys relationship to nature Her short films Nettles and A Guide to Breathing Underwater are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel She is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York Universitys Graduate Film Program and the New Schools Writing Program Her chapbook of poetry little violences is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine Ravens debut narrative feature All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt made in partnership with Maria Altamirano PASTEL and A24 worldpremiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival The film has received support from Cinereach SFFILM the Gotham Film Independent Tribeca Film Institute New Orleans Film Society Ikusmira Berriak Indie Memphis Kenneth Rainin Foundation and Westridge Foundation