Dusting for Prints: Policing, Culture & Culprits with Lorimer Shenher (Coming December 15, 2021) - Dusting for Prints: Episode Six—Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and television writer/director Jett Garrison

Dusting for Prints: Episode Six—Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and television writer/director Jett Garrison

01/19/22 • 55 min

Dusting for Prints: Policing, Culture & Culprits with Lorimer Shenher (Coming December 15, 2021)

Jett Garrison (he/they) is a Transgender *WGA writer and director currently staffed as a writer on the CW Network's reboot of THE 4400. Jett's known for directing the award-winning digital series THESE THEMS, winning the Best Director Award from Chicago's PRIDE FILMS Festival. He's won an EMMY and been nominated for an OSCAR for his short film work. Jett's feature script QUICK QUICK SLOW was a finalist in OUTFEST’s Screenwriting lab and his half-hour pilot

MAX, AGAIN is an autobiographical take on his own journey going through a second puberty later in life.

Jett started his filmmaking career in Austin, Texas where his first feature documentary premiered at SXSW. As a fellow in Film Independent’s PROJECT:INVOLVE directing program, Jett’s work was sponsored by “NBC/Universal” and featured in “Vanity Fair”. Jett was also a fellow in SONY’s Diverse Directors Program and was invited to participate in Ryan Murphy’s HALF Initiative Directing Program.

Coming of age in Austin, Texas in the early 90s, Jett lived most of his early adulthood as a masculine of center Lesbian until coming out as Transgender. As a Transgender storyteller, Jett explores themes of queerness, chosen family and marginalized communities.

Member: WGA West
https://www.jettgarrison.com/jett

MAX, AGAIN is an autobiographical take on his own journey going through a second puberty later in life.

Member: WGA West
https://www.jettgarrison.com/jett

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Dusting for Prints: Episode Five—Spoken Word Poet, Scholar, Activist, Radio Host, Journalist El Jones

El Jones is a spoken word poet, an educator, journalist, and a community activist living in African Nova Scotia. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax. In 2016, El was a recipient of the Burnley “Rocky” Jones human rights award for her community work and work in prison justice. She is a co-founder of the Black Power Hour, a live radio show with incarcerated people on CKDU that creates space for people inside to share their creative work and discuss contemporary social and political issues, and along with this work, she supports women in Nova Institution in writing and sharing their voices. El was named the Nancy's Chair of Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University for the 2017-2019 term. Her book of spoken word poetry, Live from the Afrikan Resistance! was published by Roseway Press in 2014. She also writes for The Breach and numerous other publications.
El would like to pay tribute to the many nameless and unrecognized women whose work makes it possible for her to be here and speak today. (Bio courtesy of Poetry in Voice)