This week for our #BlackFilmmakersInFocus series, we’re excited to spotlight Tennessee native Raven Jackson, writer and director of ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT from #NashFilm54. Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director, Raven’s debut narrative film, ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT, world-premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten movies of the year by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and RogerEbert.com. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a featured artist on Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, she has served as a Story Editor for HBO’s adaptation of Sula, based on Toni Morrison’s novel, and co-wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ Se...