#  Raven Jackson 

2025-2026

Black Film Project Fellow

 

 

 



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**Raven Jackson** is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Recently nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, *All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt*, made in partnership with Tender, PASTEL, and A24, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by *The New Yorker*, *Rolling Stone*, and RogerEbert.com.

A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s *BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions*, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO's adaptation of *Sula*, based on Toni Morrison's novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Series, *Surface*. Her short films *Nettles* and *A Guide to Breathing Underwater* are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. *Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt*, the companion book for her debut feature, is currently out from A24. Her photography can be found in the book, as well as in *BOMB Magazine*. Her chapbook of poetry, *little violences*, is available from Cutbank Literary Magazine.



 

 

 



##  Fellowship Project 

Jackson will be working on a feature film project.