Jane Jackson
Media Producer
RESUME
Current
RuralMedia
CV
Broadcast
TV
Cinema
Education
Board of Directors
Borderlines Film Festival
2002- Present
Founder Chair, current Board member of Borderlines Film Festival, and coordinator of Open Screen and Romani Cinema strands. BFF celebrates its 18th year in 2020 – the UK’s largest rural film festival takes place every spring in The Marches, screening around 80 new and classic films in 30 venues.
Travellers’ Times Project Director
Rural Media
2000- 2013
Developing and managing print and online publishing on issues of importance to the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the UK and those who work with them. Strands included a quarterly magazine, news and information web portal, journalism training, filmmaking activities, employing a staff team 50% Travellers across the country and www.romaroutes.eu a partner in the Council of Europe’s Roma Routes initiative.
Director of Production
Rural Media
1998-2012
Part of the Company’s senior management team and Deputy CEO, developing new projects, responding to tenders, and setting up and executive producing an ongoing slate of film and website projects, with budgets ranging from £10K to £350K, and funders including the Government, Lottery, trusts and charities. Topics included local and Gypsy heritage, migrant workers, rural poverty and social exclusion, mental health and learning disability.
TV Director/Producer
1980-1990
Jane’s TV directing career started with short drama for BBC 2 “The Queen of Annagh” in 1980. She went on to work freelance for Central TV, directing six films, including network documentaries “A Man’s Place?” and “A Common Cause”, several films for Channel 4, and returned to the BBC for several fly-on-the-wall documentary films at the Bristol and Eltree network centres.
Director
51% Productions
1980-1987
Founder member of London based women’s independent TV production company, 51% Productions, making two series for Channel 4’s first year of broadcasting.
Writer/Director
Independent Filmmaking
1972-1978
Made two independent short films with finance from South West Arts and the British Film Institute Production Board - “PORTRAIT” of the artist Monica Sjoo, and “ANGEL IN THE HOUSE” a 30-minute drama based on “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf.
Organiser
First Festival of Independent British Cinema
1974-1975
With grants from the BFI and the Arts Council, set up selection panel, researched films and organised the 2-week festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol, to which filmmakers came from all around the UK.
Video worker
Community cable TV
1973-1974
Video camera operator for two community cable TV experimental stations (Greenwich Cablevision and Bristol Channel Redifusion).
University of Kent at Canterbury
BA Hons. Politics & Philosophy
Bristol University
Postgraduate certificate in Radio, Film and TV
Skills
Film Producing
Project Leadership
Ideas Development
Chairmanship
Partnerships
Fundraising
Budgeting