Regularly seen taking animal form, shapeshifter D.E. Jackson has worked as first assistant director, wardrobe key, set production assistant, and actor. His writings include a bombastic political satire in the vein of Muppet movies, an hourlong dramedy pilot featuring the reckless exploits of a disgruntled misfit, and the unexpected prehistory of one of our most enduring cultural icons.
Beaufort's Tableau Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical In the long winter of 1843, the captain of a Canadian trapping outpost must fortify his relations with Native peoples in order to trade with them for pigments, the while keeping his painting hobby secret from his harsh Superintendent and losing his senses to mercury poisoning.
The Tide Independent ⋄ Drama In an ancient, unforgiving land, a reformed tyrant struggles against worsening delirium. When blamed by the village for a child’s drowning, he must end their despair and clear his name before he’s consumed by darkness.
Here Comes The Sludge Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy ⋄ Drama A wastewater compliance enthusiast can’t take it anymore, so becomes a masked avenger. But his efforts to clean up the city backfire, and he must now juggle his notorious new identity with the day job, a humorless detective on his trail, and a growing cadre of misguided fans.
Guar & Peas Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Comedy When a produce magnate’s philanthropy provokes a rival cousin, he must weaponize his empire or condemn it to destruction. By bubblegum.
Chunder Cloud Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Other When an exhausted flight attendant and her estranged daughter are forced to work together to survive an aviation nightmare, they discover the one thing worse than traveling with family is a shartnado on the plane.
Blake Tahoe Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Other When a shy Filipino is exalted as a Native American hero, the once-wimpy subject of a radical growth therapy must persuade its inventor to undo his life’s work.
The Rock River Crossing Budget: $100K - $1M | Animation ⋄ Family Suddenly displaced by urban growth, a young opossum and his kin must survive a treacherous river crossing to find a new home.
Drove Budget: $0 - $100K | Western Crossing Nevada in 1855, six incompatible strangers must survive the desert and the hostile confines of a stagecoach after the death of one of its horses.
Magic Kingdom Budget: $0 - $100K | Adventure ⋄ Independent An incoming freshman must get to the Tijuana consulate and authenticate her visa, but her roommate's gringo boyfriend instead gets them detained by the Mexican police.
Hell Week Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy When a fraternity pledge lands a coveted delivery route, he must pull off the sabotage of a rival house or suffer one foul mess of a spring break.
Rock Bottom Musical ⋄ Drama A disgraced Broadway producer struggles to sponsor a washed-up veejay’s twelve-step recovery when they team up to stage a one-man musical based on the breakout character from a made-for-tv Midsummer Night's Dream.
Fashion Police Academy Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy When a self-appointed fashion cop is caught impersonating an officer, the court orders him to get certified … or be humiliated on reality TV.
MacGuffin Budget: $100K - $1M | Mystery When a privacy advocate is framed for a series of killings, he must neutralize his aggressor before her identity is exposed.
Going Home Budget: $1M - $5M | Action As their executive producer careens into madness, an earnest IATSE crew faces insurmountable delays that threaten to consume their 12-hour turnaround.
Action Man Budget: $100K - $1M | Action When a chemical fire separates an orphan toddler from her sole comfort, an apprentice beekeeper must defeat a hive of murder hornets to execute its harrowing return.
Dennis the Bear Budget: $0 - $100K | Biography ⋄ Documentary Though beset with cognitive and pituitary challenges, when compared to other scouts his heart was twice their size.
Crab Noodle Soup Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent ⋄ Thriller An angry cuckold must undo a supernatural curse in time to prevent the jealous killing of his cheating love.
The Right Pupil Budget: $0 - $100K | Action A desperate professor must persuade his best student to accept a bag of cash and flee to Brazil as a vengeful coquette and her henchman close in.
The Treatment Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller When a development exec stumbles on a charmed manuscript, he must resist seduction by its story or lose command of the mysterious entity inhabiting its pages.
Unthinkable: An Airline Captain's Story
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Queen Over Jacks
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by Black Rain/Maurice Cardwell
1st Assistant Director
So You Think You Can Kill
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by Man v. Film/Erich Demerath
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Jive Genie
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by Man v. Film/Erich Demerath
Actor
A Tale of Delight
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Art department
Legacy
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by Man v. Film/Erich Demerath
Actor
The Plot
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by Man v. Film/Erich Demerath
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Power Up
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by Wheatgrinder/Dan Scott
AD, Art department
Waste Not, Want Not
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by Film by Man v. Film/Erich Demerath (Comedy)
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Shakespeare Unplugged
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by Road's End/Robert Bruce
Actor
From Kilimanjaro with Love
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by Road's End/Robert Bruce
Key Wardrobe
Abuse
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Casonetto's Last Song
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The Vernonia Incident
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Honorable Mention, Marina del Rey Film Festival
(2019)
Nominee, BlastOff
(2019)
Semifinalist, WriteMovies International Writing Competition
(2009)
Best Actor, The Duck Variations
(1984)
Scott Rogers Studios
(2014-2018)