Jack Lofton(II)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Born in Memphis and raised on a farm near Hughes, Arkansas, Jack is a film producer and director with Mudroom Films. For his first film project, he embedded himself with the Westboro Baptist Church for the short documentary "God Hates Gaga" about a family's picketing of a Lady Gaga concert in Kansas' worst blizzard in history. He then went on to produce the HBO Documentary All About Ann: Governor Richards that featured Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Bill Clinton, and Tom Brokaw and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won him an Epic Award from The White House Project, a non-profit devoted to putting the first woman in the White House. Jack also worked for five years to transition the Little Rock Film Festival from a start-up to one of the premiere Southern Film Festivals and a "Top 25 Film Festival Worth the Entry Fee" by MovieMaker Magazine and he is now active in building the Arkansas film community while serving on the Board of the Arkansas Cinema Society. Named one of Arkansas Business' "40 Under 40", Jack was also credited as a "stuntman" as Joaquin Phoenix's stand-in for Walk the Line (his sister Katie was Reese's) and has a law degree and masters from the Clinton School of Public Service where he studied the power of film to affect our culture and bring about social change. Jack has a HSDFF fellowship, has recently attended DOCNYC 2021 "OINY" and is currently producing and directing the documentaries: The 'Vous about the history and culture of Memphis' World Famous BBQ restaurant, The Rendezvous and its legendary waiters, Kings of Tort about major league trial lawyers who fight global corporations that put profits before people and Modesto Dreams about a teenage deaf-blind bowler phenom from Modesto, California who will attend the Helen Keller National Center as he prepares to become a pro bowler. Jack also helps to support local artists by producing films like the American Spanish language feature film Llego Hoy and the short film Moth about the stereotypes of Southern women and mothers in the South.
