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In 2008, Screen Siren Pictures is proud to be celebrating 11 years in business as an active, independent film and television production company based in Vancouver, Canada. We create socially relevant, innovative, award-winning documentaries, dramatic film and television. Our focus on international co-productions and partnerships brings energy, creativity and established local and international industry and financial relationships to all projects.
Screen Siren has produced for broadcasters such as AETN, ARTE, BBC, CBC, CTV, Global Television, Bravo!, Corus, Movie Central, TMN, TVO, W, the Discovery Channel, the Biography Channel (US), Vision TV, Knowledge Network and SCN and has partnered with distributors such as the NFB, Fireworks International, Moving Images, Odeon Films, Alliance Atlantis, Peace Arch Entertainment, and TV2. Our productions have been honoured at numerous international festivals and received awards and nominations from: The Leo Awards, The Banff Television Festival, The Genies and The Gemini Awards.
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Lisa Jackson
Lisa's first short Suckerfish premiered at 2004 Hot Docs and has screened at over 50 festivals across Canada and internationally. It has aired nationally on CBC's ZeD, The National, and Canadian Reflections, as well as on APTN. Her most recent documentary is the one-hour Reservation Soldiers which was produced with Screen Siren Pictures and aired on CTV in late 2007. She is developing a documentary on aboriginal languages with the NFB and co-directing the feature-length doc MS 408 (in development) with cinematographer Bob Aschmann. She is a mentor with the National Film Board's "Our World" program to train aboriginal youth in digital storytelling using their traditional languages.
Lisa spent several years researching and production coordinating award winning educational shows for air on Knowledge Network and has directed curricular video and multimedia projects. In 2004, she received the ImagineNATIVE Alliance Atlantis Mentorship Award and in 2005 the Vancouver Arts Award for Emerging Media Artist. Lisa is Anishinaabe, grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and studied Film at Simon Fraser University.
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