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KID FOURTEEN REDUX INTERVIEW from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

DIRECTORS CUT ZAYED SUSTAINABILITY PRIZE from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Directed a series of 4 films in Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana and Morocco for the 2020 Zayed Sustainability Prize.

Director: Jackson Allers Director of Photography: Rian Mcloughlin Producer: Leighla McGregor Production: Boomtown Productions

We Speak Dance Beirut Episode (Netflix) from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Dance unites a city of extremes in Lebanon, with stops at a wedding, a refugee camp and a nightclub bustling with belly dancers.

I was the co-producer and second camera for this Netflix series We Speak Dance with host and creator Vandana Hart and Director Chris Kenner.

THIS DIASPORA LIFE TRAILER EPISODE 3: BUENOS AIRES from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Shot/Edited: Jackson Allers

"In March of last year, we traveled the greatest distance thus far for this project to meet our Armenian kin in Buenos Aires. It was a month of dining in historic institutions with our diaspora elders. A month of “one more cup of coffee”. Of khorovatz and empanadas, milonga and kotchari. And the kindness of too many strangers to list.

This trailer is a small teaser of our findings, a token of our love, for a city housing a newly discovered network of our roots. Buenos Aires, the third episode of our podcast “This Diaspora Life” which uses oral histories and archival music to do ethnographic deep dives into different diaspora communities around the world, you were a dream.

Stay tuned for the full audio episode reveal to be broadcast with some of our favorite radio stations across the world."

Director, Writer, and Producer: Angela Brussel Color grading: Chyrstel Elias Composition: Yara Asmar

Special thanks to the inimitable crew at Discotchari ( instagram.com/discotchari ) whom we collaborated with on the music front for this episode. They provided us with a dope archive of rare Armenian music from South America that really took the episode to the next level. Here’s a note from them regarding the gorgeous song at the end of this clip:

“This song was recorded live on reel-to-reel during the visit of the State Orchestra of Armenian Song and Dance to Buenos Aires sometime in the early 70’s. This performance was given at Luna Park in downtown Buenos Aires, and pressed to vinyl in limited quantities with local vernacular packaging. This song titled “Las Grullas” is actually a direct translation for the Armenian folk song “Krunk”, a focal point of the Armenian musical lexicon outlined by Komitas in his ethnomusicological studies.”

TRAILER LA EPISODE: THIS DIASPORA LIFE PODCAST from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

We’re so thrilled to share this teaser with you for the second episode of our podcast “This Diaspora Life” which uses oral histories and archival music to do ethnographic deep dives into different diaspora communities around the world. First season, Armenian Diaspora. First stops, Los Angeles and Beirut. Here are the hauntological fruits of our labor. Stay tuned for the full episode reveal in June ��

Shot, edited, and co-directed by Jackson Allers Written, produced, and directed by Angela Brussel Color Grading by Chrystel Elias Composition by microwave.blues

THIS DIASPORA LIFE PILOT EPISODE FILM FINAL HI RES from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

LA EPISODE TRAILER EPISODE 1 from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

LA EPISODE 1 TRAILER MARCH 11 from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

THIS DIASPORA LIFE TRAILER ARMENIAN LANGUAGE VERSION from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Okuafo Foundation: Using AI in Ghana for Crop Yields from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Okuafo Foundation is a small and medium enterprise (SME) that has developed a smartphone application using AI to determine and diagnose diseases in crops at an early stage – without an internet connection. This has helped 30,000 farmers reduce their crop losses and improve their harvest by 50% in Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, and Burkina Faso.

Director: Jackson Allers Director of Photography: Ian D. Murphy Producer: Leighla McGregor Production House: Boomtown Productions

Hakimi Aliyu Secondary School Mokwa: Staving Off Deforestation from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Sheikh Zayed Sustainability Prize 2020 Winner. Hakimi Aliyu Secondary School Mokwa (HASSM) in Nigeria has committed to the year-round production of seasonal crops and the distribution of efficient cooking stoves to replace fuel wood. We are proud to announce they have won the Global High Schools Prize for Sub-Saharan Africa.⁠

Director: Jackson Allers Director of Photography: Rian Mcloughlin Producer: Leighla McGregor Production: Boomtown Productions

Traditional Water Harvesting: Al Amal Junior High School, Morocco. from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

2020 Global High Schools category from the Middle East and North Africa. #ZayedSustainabilityPrize Al Amal Junior High School (Morocco) proposed a project focused on the provision of generating water through the use of clean energy which will be achieved through traditional water harvesting techniques that incorporate rainfall management as well as effective groundwater storage. With the prize money they will install solar panels to pump water from two new wells. ⁠

Director: Jackson Allers Director of Photography: Rian Mcloughlin Producer: Leighla McGregor Production: Boomtown Productions

GLOBHE Drone Delivery Systems Malawi from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

The 2020 Zayed Sustainability Prize winner in the Health category, @globhedrones GLOBHE Drones developed an app to collect drone data to pre-empt disease outbreaks and respond to disasters.  

Director: Jackson Allers Director of Photography: Ian D. Murphy Producer: Leighla McGregor/Boomtown Productions

Voice of the Streets: the Birth of a Hip Hop Movement

Boikutt at the Voice of the Streets event in Cairo – Nov. 2011. Photo: Laith Majali

CAIRO – Last November, 12 of the region’s best-known Arab rappers were set to perform together at a public youth center in the swanky central Cairo district of Zamalek. Organizers billed Voice of the Streets as a concert to remind people about “the continued struggle for freedom of expression in the wake of…

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Lebanon_Final_190227 from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

Beirut Groove Collective July Promo from Jackson Allers on Vimeo.

As part of a 10-year experiment in music and dance in Lebanon, Jackson has been a part of the Beirut Groove Collective since year one (2009). This was a video edited by Jackson with footage he shot over the last 2-years (additional footage provided by Arte) on the occasion of the 2nd summer of rooftop parties at the old steel factory in Qarantina (*Quarantine) district of Beirut called KED and run by Gaby Markarian. Description of the BGC: "Now entering its 10th year, the Beirut Groove Collective (BGC) has become the premier destination for deep funk, soul, northern soul and African funk in the Middle East. The Beirut-based DJ collective is the only party in Lebanon and the wider region that promotes vinyl-only culture, representing an underground alternative to the nightlife of the city while regularly throwing the region's only strictly 45rpm/7"record parties. Whether in basement clubs at alternative beach venues, or in warehouse spaces at the forgotten fringes of the city, the BGC has hosted the leading international DJs, tastemakers and crate-diggers from the funk and soul scene, loyal to the format of the 45rpm/7" record."

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