Dan Jackson(III)
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Dan Jackson began his career working for Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim. While living in Washington DC, he wrote, directed and edited the award-winning shorts "David's Run" and "Anything Can Happen." After re-locating to Los Angeles, he directed on multiple seasons of "Rescue 911" and other reality-based series. He wrote, directed and produced documentaries on Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson, America's Military Academies and the Harley-Davidson V-Rod.
For ten years, he was an in-house show runner for Thom Beer's Original Productions, overseeing the series "Monster House", "Crash Files: Inside the NTSB", "Impact: Stories of Survival" and "L.A. Hard Hats". In 2010, he relocated to Vancouver BC, where he worked as a show runner on "Highway Thur Hell" (Discover/Netflix), "Diagnose Me" (Discovery Life), "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" (Animal Planet/Netflix), "This Is High School" (CBC) and "Age of A.I." (YouTube). He wrote the travel memoir "Old Bug", which won the Independent Publishers Assoc. Award Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice.
For ten years, he was an in-house show runner for Thom Beer's Original Productions, overseeing the series "Monster House", "Crash Files: Inside the NTSB", "Impact: Stories of Survival" and "L.A. Hard Hats". In 2010, he relocated to Vancouver BC, where he worked as a show runner on "Highway Thur Hell" (Discover/Netflix), "Diagnose Me" (Discovery Life), "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" (Animal Planet/Netflix), "This Is High School" (CBC) and "Age of A.I." (YouTube). He wrote the travel memoir "Old Bug", which won the Independent Publishers Assoc. Award Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice.
