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JACKSON KROOPF (he/they) is a filmmaker and educator working across fiction, documentary, and hybrid forms. Their films explore identity formation, place, and the social impact of storytelling. His work blends improvisation, interviews, scripted elements, and archival material, using cinema as a space for relationality, emergence, and reflection.

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 (Penny, Here; The Art of Survival), collaborating closely with elders to explore memory, influence 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, NEH, Mellon, and Getty foundations, 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.