PATRICK JACKSON AND DANEETA LORETTA JACKSON
(a.k.a. Elektrik Zoo Films)
We began our co-directing collaboration in 2002 with our feature documentary “Tokyo Cowboys.” After graduating with distinction from the London Film School, we worked in film in London making short form content until 2008 when we married and moved to Daneeta’s native Louisiana. In New Orleans, we formalized our partnership by founding ElekTrik Zoo Films, Inc., the umbrella under which we make our films, work and sundry.
Our Louisiana body of work includes narratives, documentaries, hybrids, a major exhibition, thousands of photographs, writings and photo essays. It has become known as our “Down the Road” work because most of it takes place in a fictional world we created out of the real one. Even the docs take place there. Artistically, we like to take something that was once real, fictionalize it, and use the actual people to play fictionalized versions of themselves. Our work looks documentary and “loose,” but is is actually heavily constructed.
In our day job, we also co-direct and create cutting-edge moving picture and text content for a variety of local, national and international clients including:
The Kellogg Foundation, Loyola University New Orleans, The Youth Empowerment Project, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Elephant Quilt, Day for Night Films, The Legacy Foundation, Dartmouth PRC, Franz Kirmann, storycentral, LOOP NOLA, LA Green Corps, Conducttr, Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre.
Daneeta brings over three decades of commercial, journalistic, and creative writing experience to the partnership, while Patrick brings a keen visual sensibility grounded in a previous career in London as a cinematographer. There are no hard lines in the partnership. Each of us formerly trained in the art and technique of independent filmmaking at the London Film School, and we have come together to amplify stories … to Elektrify them. Because, together we are stronger.
FILMOGRAPHY
IN DEVELOPMENT
Love in Gretna (feature-length narrative)
Destiny is a Gangster (feature-length narrative) developed with Termite Films (Kedi)
IN PRODUCTION
Homeland/Wetland (experimental eco-documentary)
Partially funded: the Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Southern Documentary Fund
2018-2019
Locked (rapid-response documentary)
Funded: New Orleans Video Access Center.
Festivals: Sync Up Cinema (2018), Best Short Documentary @ GNG Green Earth Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Best Short Documentary @ DTC Film Festival, Best Louisiana Film @ Loyola University Feminist Film Festival
Nicabob (narrative)
Vimeo Staff Pick.
Festivals: Encounters 23rd Short Film and Animation Festival, Audience Award New Orleans Film Festival, 2 Short Nights Exeter Film Festival, Pontchartrain Film Festival, Three Rivers Film Festival, Maryland International Film Festival, Finalist @ FilmJam, Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, Brussels Independent Film Festival, Sydney World Film Festival, Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, Best Short Film @ Somerville International Film Festival, Venice Film Week, London Super Shorts Film Festival, Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival, Wunderground Film Festival
2017
Requiem for Tyrin (experimental documentary)
Funded: Magnifying Glass Fellowship. Festivals: New Orleans Film Festival
2016
Mr. Joe lives Alone (documentary)
Festivals: Winner: Best Documentary, Vasteras Film Festival, FACAE Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival
2013
Chalmatia: A Fictional Place Down the Road (installation film)
Funded: National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts: Career Advancement Grant, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Screened continuously for three months at the CAC
2011
Destiny lives Down the Road (narrative)
Festivals: Loyola Feminist Film Festival (2018), Art Klub: International Womens Day, A celebration (2018), Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Best Short @ New Orleans Film Festival, Flickr Fest, Indy Boots Film Festival, Thin Line Film Festival, Film Fest Eberswald, Lady Fest NOLA, Winner: audience award, Third Street Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival
Mrs. Carmella Prays — (documentary)
Festivals: Rockport Film Festival, Winner: INSIGHT JUDGES’ AWARD ‘Best in Festival’ and the SIGNIS AWARD for a film which ‘best explores human values’, Insight Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival
WORK-OGRAPHY
2019
Faith in the Future Capital Campaign Video (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola College of Law (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
College of Music and Media (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
Transformation is Possible (intro video) Jesuit Social Research Institute
Faith in the Future (video content for $100m Campaign) Loyola University New Orleans
2018
History is a Story (commercial) The Historic New Orleans Collection
Imagine a Day (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
The Launch (commercial) Find your Voice/storycentral (U.K.)
LOYNO MBA (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola Loyal (commercial) Loyola University New Orleans
2017
Creative Professions (commercial)
Five Lessons Learned (branded documentary)
Rock -n- Roll Suicide (music video) Bremner Duthie
Streetcar Stories Season 2 (branded web series)
2016
Streetcar Stories Season 1 (branded web series)
MedMatch+ (commercial)
Living this American Dream (commercial) Youth Empowerment Project
2015
Bremner Sings “My Ship” (music video) Bremner Duthie
Shared Values (branded social media spots) Loyola University
#JesuitEducated (branded video and social media spots) Loyola University
Excellence is a Journey (commercial series) SPA NOLA Columbia Univ. Teachers College
Derek does Dialysis (branded portrait) NOLA Doctor
Experience Loyola Law (recruitment spot) Loyola University College of Law
Pages 9-13 from the Creative Activity Book for Childfree Ladies of a Certain Age (transmedia + art installation) Artist Inc. Incubator
2014
Sport can do that (fundraising spot) Loyola University, Athletics Department
Meridians (album promos) Franz Kirmann
Faith in the Future (branded portrait documentary series) Loyola University
Faces of Dialysis (branded portrait documentary series) NOLA Doctor
The Loedown (web series) Harlequin, Mills and Boon U.K.
60K Challenge (commercial) Loyola University
1912 Challenge (commercial) Loyola University
Johnny Virgo (branding portrait) Conducttr, U.K./Transmedia Storyteller/Zen Films
2012
Hand-crafted and local (branding portrait) Old New Orleans Rum
Healing Histories (Multimedia) The Kellogg Foundation/Weber Shandwick
Ethical Education (branded documentary) Conducttr, U.K./Transmedia Storyteller/Zen Films
BremNoir (video projections for live performance) Bremner Duthie
Flashback (collaborative dance/video performance) Reese Johnason Collective
Teaching Louisiana Children Stewardship (fundraising spot) Louisiana Outdoor Outreach Program (LOOP)
I am the Gulf Coast Fund (PSA) Louisiana Jazz and Heritage Foundation/NOVAC
2011
“Carbon Monoxide Suite” – Projection Art The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Spring
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