Jason Jaacks

Submitted by Valerie on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 21:12

Profile

Jason Jaacks is a photographer, editor and videographer specializing in documentary

photography, film, new media production. He is the Executive Director of Cordillera

Productions, a media production company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Experience

Filmmaker, The Phillips Collection | Santa Fe, New Mexico - 2010

Produced a short documentary about the Teach With O’Keeffe Program, a collaboration

between The Phillips Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Georgia

O’Keeffe Museum, which uses the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe to promote arts integration

within public schools.

Photographer, The Tohono O’odham Voice Against the Wall | Arizona/Mexico - 2009

Created a photographic portfolio to aid in presentations and political organizing for The

Tohono O’odham Voice Against the Wall, a non-profit trying to de-militarize the U.S.-Mexican

border along the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona.

Filmmaker, Georgia O’Keeffe Art & Leadership Program | New Mexico - 2009

Produced a short advocacy to aid in grant writing which documented testimonials from the

Georgia O’Keeffe Art & Leadership Program for Boys and Girls.

Filmmaker, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation | Cape Town, South Africa - 2007

Produced a short advocacy video documenting Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation’s efforts to

build an after school center for youth in a township outside of Cape Town, South Africa.

Education

College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico - B.A. in Documentary Studies, 2009

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