FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES

THE HOLLY (2022)

Co-Editor, Co-Writer, Associate Producer, Post Supervisor

Directed by Julian Rubenstein

Winner of a 2025 News and Doc Emmy, winner of a 2024 Heartland Emmy, winner of the 2023 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for best documentary, winner of the Mountainfilm audience choice award for best feature, winner of the Jury Award for best feature documentary at Santa Fe International Film Festival.

Hulu | Prime | Apple+ | PBS

AMBER: THE GIRL BEHIND THE ALERT (2023)

Co-Editor

Directed by Elizabeth Fisher

Nominated for a 2024 News and Doc Emmy.

NBC Peacock

THE FERES EXCEPTION (In progress)

Co-Editor

Directed by Maura Axelrod

SELECT SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

THE LOVE BUGS (2019)

Editor, Story Advisor, Co-Cinematographer

Directed by Allison Otto and Maria Clinton

Winner of the 2021 News and Doc Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary as well as five audience choice awards for best short documentary.

PBS POV

BIG THINGS TO COME (2022)

Co-Editor

Directed by Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer

Red Bull TV

WELCOME STRANGERS (2020)

Editor, Story Advisor

Directed by Dia Sokol Savage

Winner of eight festival awards and one honorable mention.

FOREVER HOME (Coming 2025)

Editor

Directed by Allison Argo

Private films relevant to potential project partnerships may be available for screening upon request.

Chelsea Jackson is a documentary film director & editor who has edited two national Emmy Award-winning films and specializes in cinema vérité style story development. Her recent work includes directing and editing two Heartland Emmy-nominated episodes of PBS12’s Decode Colorado series - one on teen mental health and another on the social determinants of health.

  • 2024 Adjunct Professor of Documentary Ethics and Ethnographic Media

    University of Colorado

  • 2023 Guest Speaker - Editing Workshop

    Western Colorado University

  • 2022 Panelist for a workshop on the Director/Editor Relationship

    American University

  • 2022 Guest Speaker - Compassion in Creative Storytelling Workshop

    College for Creative Studies

  • Upcoming: 2026 Adjunct Professor of Advanced Documentary

    University of Colorado

Jackson House Films was founded by Chelsea and Rob Jackson. We met while working at an adventure film production company in 2011. Fast forward fourteen years and we’re married with two sons, Owen and Iver. Our young bucks are picking up tricks of the trade and our cameras already. They’ve said they want to be “filmers and editors” like their old man and mama, and we will be honored if they choose to join the family business.

We have been based out of Longmont, Colorado since 2015. Our work takes us to Denver and Boulder frequently, into the Rocky Mountains as much as possible, down to Colorado Springs, out to rural Colorado and up to Cheyenne, Wyoming. We have worked on projects in over half the states of the U.S. and keep our passports current, always open to putting our Spanish language skills to good use.

Whether your idea is stuck in your imagination or on a hard drive full of footage that hasn’t found the right editor, we are happy to discuss. We can take a concept and direct, produce, film, edit and shepherd it to the point of delivery, or we can tackle certain steps along the way.

If you think your project could use the help of a family-run, story-centric, professional, respectful and fun production company, please give us a shout.

We are open for hire as directors of photography, editors, producers, directors, consultants or to brew your whole motion picture stew with our special touch of home cookin’.