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Jackson Kroopf is a filmmaker and educator working across fiction, documentary, and hybrid forms. Their work blends improvisation, interviews, scripted elements, and archival material, using cinema as a space for reflection, relationality, and emergence.

Jackson’s films have screened at BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Outfest, and SFFILM, and have been featured by Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week, and broadcast on PBS. His short film NASIR won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC and was distributed by the Los Angeles Times. They have created performance-centered nonfiction work as a Sundance Institute/NEH Fellow, collaborating closely with elders and youth to explore memory, assimilation and intergenerational storytelling.

Jackson has taught filmmaking at USC, Vassar College, and Cal Arts, as well as in youth and community programs across California and New York. Supported by the Sundance Institute, Suraj Israni and W.K. Rose Fellowships, Jackson is developing The Art of Survival and Late Bloom, two hybrid feature projects set in Southern California. He is currently a Lecturer in Cinematic Arts at UC San Diego.