The Writer's World

In respect to my writing abilities you may contact me via e-mail at bjackson@tntech.edu 
 

VIDEO AWARDS: 
Educational Short Award - International Family Film Festival 2007 - FORGOTTEN SON
Bronze Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2002 - HEAVENLY  


SCREENWRITING AWARDS:
Best Animation Screenplay - International Family Film Festival 2003 - RAMA
Best Comedy Screenplay - International Family Film Festival 1999   - BIRD BRAIN
Best Screenplay - Gold Special Jury Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 1992 - WEEKEND DAD
First Place - Red Inkworks Productions Competition 2000 - CAT HOUSE
First Place - MOW Indie Screenplay Competition 1999 - DEADLY AMANITA
Silver Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2003 - RAMA
Silver Award - WorldFest Charleston International Film Festival 1995 - IVORY TOWERS
Silver Award - WorldFest Charleston International Film Festival 1993 - MEL'S BABY
Bronze Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 1991 - CAT HOUSE
Bronze Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 1994 - MIRACLES IN MISSISSIPPI
Bronze Award - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2000 - THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Third Place - National Screenwriting Competition 2000 - DESTRUCTION BY DESIGN
Third Place - Tennessee Screenwriting Competition 2000 - THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Third Place - Watkins Institute Screenwriting Competition 2000 - THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Finalist Award - 4th Place - WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 1999 - KATE
Finalist Award - 4th Place - Unique Television Competition 1999 - CAT HOUSE
Finalist Award - Comedy - America*s Best Competition 1991- BAD BREAK
Finalist Award - Situation Comedy - America's Best Competition 1995 - HATFIELDS & MCCOYS
Finalist Award - Unique Television Competition 2000 - DESTRUCTION BY DESIGN
Finalist Award - Scriptwriters* Network Competition 2001 - PRETTY BIRD  
 
VIDEOS:  

Click on the Forgotten Son Image to play the video:

  Educational Short 13 Minute    

HEAVENLY Dark Comedy 13 Minute Short


COLORS OF MY MIND Experimental Drama 13 Minute Short

A young boy overhears that his father is not his biological father and his emotional state is depicted using varying colors and hues in this experimental short. The world is in black and white when he is not in the scene. Written, directed, and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson.

 

                               
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HATFIELDS & MCCOYS Sitcom Pilot 22 Minute Short


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PRODUCED VIDEOS

The horrors and consequences of methamphetamine addiction is seen from the point of view of a high school student, whose mother is an addict.  Written and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson.  Educational Short Award at the International Family Film Festival, Hollywood, CA, 2007.

HEAVENLY Dark Comedy 15 Minute Short

A couple die in a crash and are transported to the afterlife, where they are given a handhled computer which will grant them all their worldly desires. The catch: they have to agree on what they want. Written, directed, and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson. Shown at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival in New York and Los Angeles 2001 - Bronze Award at WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival 2002.

COLORS OF MY MIND 13 Minute Experimental Short

A young boy overhears that his father is not his biological father and his emotional state is depicted using varying colors and hues in this experimental short. The world is in black and white when he is not in the scene. Written, directed, and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson.

HATFIELDS & MCCOYS 22 Minute Sitcom Pilot

The Old South meets the New North when the Dixie aristocrat, Claude Hatfield IV, gets the New Jersey dock worker, Paddy McCoy, as his new neighbor. Written, directed, and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson.

HELLPHONE - 2 Minute Parody

Woman takes out her frustration with dropped cell calls upon the "Can you hear me now?"  Verhozen repair man.  Written and produced by Barbara Albers Jackson.

IN PROGRESS

Graphic Novel Adaptation of RAMA, in association with Arcana Studios, Vancouver, Canada. 

Stage Play Adaptation of the Marriage Contract.

BAD BREAK Comedy Short
A worry wart breaks his leg which requires surgery. His fears get the best of him as he imagines his surgeon was a butcher before entering medical school.

BIRD BRAIN Comedy
When a coming of age teenager inherits his grandfather's parrot, he discovers that his grandfather's soul is in the parrot. 
(* alternate version where the teenager is a girl, is also available)

CAT HOUSE Comedy/Drama
The antics and angst of nine college women, who examine their relationships with themselves, with each other, and with men.

COLORS OF MY MIND Short Experimental Drama
A young boy overhears that his father is not his biological father. The world is seen through the boy's perspective.

DEADLY AMANITA Romantic Comedy/Murder Mystery
A pathologist uncovers a murder and her lover is the prime suspect.

**DESTRUCTION BY DESIGN Action Fanasy/Comedy
Four young professionals drink spring water contaminated by a drug lab affecting their brain giving them enhanced senses, but incapacitates their muscle control in times of stress.

FASTEN YOUR SUNBELT Comedy
A Catholic couple from New Jersey travel throughout the South and there is a world of difference from what they see and hear and what they think they are seeing and hearing.

FORGOTTEN SON Drama

Educational drama of a day in the life of a student whose mother is a methamphetamine addict.

HATFIELDS & MCCOYS Sitcom Pilot
The Old South meets the New North when the Dixie aristocrat, Claude Hatfield IV, gets the New Jersey dock worker, Paddy McCoy, as his new neighbor.

HEAVENLY Dark Comedy Short
A couple dies and they are granted all their earthly desires in the afterlife.

HELLPHONE Parody

A  woman attacks the TV cell phone ion after her call is dropped.

IVORY TOWERS Drama
Under an Affirmative Action directive, an African-American is chosen as president of a university, where the emotionally charged issues of academic freedom and bigotry give rise to the practical issues of money and power.

KATE Romantic Comedy
An aggressive female attorney gets transported back to the Gay Nineties and falls in love.

THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT Romantic Comedy
A couple's twenty-five year marriage contract expires and they experience Suddenly Single Shock Syndrome (SSSS) when they reenter the dating world.

MEL'S BABY Romantic Comedy
When a woman decides to get artificially inseminated, her mother plots with an old college roommate to have the roommate's son be the sperm donor, unbeknownst to either the son or daughter.

MIRACLES IN MISSISSIPPI TV Docudrama
Uplifting story of THE MIRACLES, a choir from the Baddour Memorial Center for mentally challenged adults, who perform throughout the South.

MOTHER IS A VERB Half-hour Drama
A biology teacher helps an inner city youth discover that his identity is more than his chromosomes.

MY ABILITY AND JUDGMENT Drama
Medical malpractice as seen from the physician's P.O.V.

WEEKEND DAD Family Comedy
A mom initiates divorce proceedings so the workaholic dad is forced to interact with his sons when he is granted weekend custody.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:35:32 PM