Join Emmy® and Tony® Award-winning film, theater, and television producer Mike Jackson. Jackson is the co-founder and managing partner of Get Lifted Film Co. which has developed projects with major networks including ABC, NBC, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Netflix, and FX. Jackson will discuss his prolific career and how the role of producer has helped him champion unique voices and storytellers in the industry.
Mike Jackson
Mike Jackson is an Emmy® and Tony® Award-winning film, theater, and television producer. As co-founder and managing partner of Get Lifted Film Co., a Los Angeles based production company which has developed projects with major networks including ABC, NBC, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Netflix, and FX, Jackson harnesses his Philly hustle and unparalleled tenacity to bring elevated multi-cultural content to global audiences alongside Ty Stiklorius and EGOT-winner John Legend.
Jackson’s forthcoming projects include LOUDMOUTH, a documentary about Reverend Al Sharpton who has been at the center of the national conversation around race since the late 1980s, scheduled as Tribeca Film Festival’s closing night film on June 18; THE BLACK CYCLONE, a feature drama film about cycling champion Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor; the film THE LONG WAY DOWN based on Jason Reynold’s award-winning novel which will be distributed by Universal and the film adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s novel BLACKTOP WASTELAND.
Over the next three years, the company’s imprint, Get Lifted Books, through the Zando publishing house, will acquire and publish four to six titles across fiction and nonfiction. The first novel, Rosewater by Liv Little, founder of British magazine gal-dem, is a coming-of-age story about a queer, Black, working-class poet in London and is set to publish in spring 2023.
Most recently, Jackson and Get Lifted produced HBO’s THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND, a feature documentary that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, focused on resilient Nigerian youth fighting anti-LGBTQ laws. Additionally, the team produced Netflix’s MONSTER, as well as Nancy Buirski’s documentary, A CRIME ON THE BAYOU, that holds a Rotten Tomatoes “Tomatometer” score of 100% and profiles brave individuals who fought for justice in and around the Civil Rights era.
Notably, Jackson produced David E. Talbert’s acclaimed holiday film JINGLE JANGLE: A CHRISTMAS STORY and executive produced HBO docu-series ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN, which received the AAFCA TV Honor for Best Documentary and was awarded “Best Multi-Part Documentary” by the International Documentary Association. Jackson and Get Lifted also executive produced the HBO documentary 40 YEARS A PRISONER and the Netflix documentary GIVING VOICE. Additionally, the IFC comedy series SHERMAN’S SHOWCASE, which is gearing up for the launch of its highly anticipated third season, and SHERMAN’S SHOWCASE: BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECTACULAR, a one-hour special on IFC and AMC, RHYTHM + FLOW for Netflix, which won the 2020 NAACP Image Award, ABC’s “John Legend and Family: A Bigger Love Father’s Day.”, Damien Chazelle’s Oscar®-winning musical LA LA LAND, as well as NBC’s 2018 Emmy®-winning JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR LIVE and the 2017 Tony® Award winning August Wilson play JITNEY. Get Lifted and Erik Feig’s PICTURESTART formed PICTURELIFT, a joint venture focused on developing, producing and financing multiple films in the $10M range, featuring diverse filmmakers and inclusive casts.