Chelsea Jackson
Chelsea Jackson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with an ardent passion for vérité editing and story development. Her recent editing work includes: WELCOME STRANGERS (2020), winner of eight festival awards and one honorable mention; Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Short Documentary, THE LOVE BUGS (2019), which has also won five Audience Choice Awards for Best Short Documentary; MY MOTHER MY FRIEND: LINDSAY'S LIFE SAVING GIFT (2018), a 2019 Heartland Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Human Interest Special; and FELIX (2018), a multiple Audience Choice Award-Winner for Best Short Documentary including at Woods Hole Film Festival and Mountainfilm in Aspen. Chelsea graduated from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Entertainment Arts. She has edited dozens of documentary-centric short films for clients such as National Geographic, Gaia Herbs, UCHealth, Greenpeace, Pangea Organics, Sierra Designs, Unreasonable, Outdoor Industry Association, and many more. Some common threads through this work and Chelsea's personal projects are a celebration of community, social justice, education, well-being, wilderness and wildlife, science, and the value of time spent outdoors.
