Mike Jackson has directed over 30 shorts and music videos, and recently wrote, directed and cut his first feature, TIME HELMET, starring Peter New. His screenplay was a Quarter Finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
Many of Mike's films have been award winners or nominees. WOODMAN, also with Peter New, was a Crazy 8s winner, nominated for 6 LEO Awards, and won numerous other awards at over 30 festivals worldwide. THE BAR, starring Peter Deluise, won Hot Shot Shorts and was nominated for 2 LEOs, and won Best Comedy at the Sea to Sky Film Festival.
Other notable shorts include HELL'S HABIT, which swept the awards at the Bloodshots 48 hour Film Challenge, THE VEIL, FREQUENCY ZERO (winner of the CBC ZED People's Choice Award in the Reel Fast 48 hour Film Competition), and DIAL 'A' FOR ALPHAMAN.
Mike has directed two music videos for the band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, as well as videos for Geoff Berner, Third Eye Tribe, Coldwater Road, and Fidgital.
TIME HELMET
Time Helmet is a sci-fi comedy feature, currently in its festival run.
Down-on-his-luck inventor Donald Voltmann creates a Time Travel Helmet to turn his life around, but instead becomes embroiled in a plot by his future self to patent troll his ex-wife. Under pursuit by the Time Police and 13 year old agent Prudence Slaughter, he must fight his future self, in order to escape financial ruin and win back his daughter's love.
WOODMAN
He never became a real boy. The little wooden puppet grew up to be a lonely wooden man, trapped in a cage of his own lies. But one day, online, he meets a woman with secrets, and together they unravel the truths that trap them both.
WINNER:
Crazy8s Film Making Competition
Best Dramatic Short and Audience Choice Award, Sonoma International Film Festival
Best Fantasy/Sci-fi Short, Deep in the Heart Film Festival
Special Jury Prize: International Short Filmmaking Van Gogh Awards, Amsterdam Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, Mexico International Film Festival
Le Coup de Coeur Jury Prize, Festival du Film Merveilleux (Paris)
Best Effects, FantaSci Short Film Festival
Best Make-Up, LEO Awards
6 Awards, Olympus Film Festival
Best Narrative Short, Vegas Film Awards
NOMINEE:
Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Best Film
LEO Awards: Best Performance (male), Best Screenwriting, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Costumes
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THE BAR
Whiskey music plays in a seedy bar, where pool sharks roam and the liquor flows like forgotten tears. A film noir comedy about love, life, tulips and xylophones. “The Big Sleep” meets “Airplane!"
WINNER:
Hot Shot Shorts Film Competition
Best Comedy - Sea to Sky film festival.
NOMINEE:
LEO Awards - Best Costumes, Best Visual Effects.
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GEOFF BERNER
WHEN DD GETS HER DONKEY
Can you really trust the donkey children? Whimsy turns to horror in this music video for Canada's premiere folk-accordionist, Geoff Berner.
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THE DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS
20 MINUTES OF OXYGEN
Don't drop your hammer! A workplace safety music video for the Lovecraft-themed rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
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