Lisa F. Jackson (born 1950) is an American documentary filmmaker, known most recently for her films, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007) and Sex Crimes Unit (2011), which aired on HBO in 2008[1] and 2011.
When she was young, both her father and stepfather, Donald Carmichael, were in the CIA, and as a result she moved often, living in Bangkok, Thailand and in Bogota, Colombia before settling in Washington, DC in 1963.
She has directed and/or edited dozens of films for PBS, including Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson, Jackson Pollock: Portrait, Through Madness (a 1993 NYC Emmy winner), The Creative Spirit, Storytellers, The Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Bill Moyers' Journal, The Mind, and segments for Sesame Street and Live from Lincoln Center.
It Happened Here includes the personal portraits of five students at three schools along with testimonials from college administrators, educators, mental health experts and legal scholars".
[14] John O’Connor commented in the New York Times that “producer/director Lisa F. Jackson is remarkably adept in getting her subjects to speak frankly and thoughtfully.” The Christian Science Monitor noted that she takes on difficult subjects “with intelligence and courage.”[11] John Anderson of Variety wrote, “Helmer Lisa F. Jackson's Sex Crimes Unit is the real thing, a gritty, emotional, up-close-and-procedural look at the actual New York district attorneys dedicated to prosecuting rape and sexual assault...