John Jackman is an American filmmaker, author, and Christian pastor. His filmmaking work has primarily emphasized historical faith related topics. He has written widely on digital filmmaking technology, film lighting, and digital special effects. He is one of the founders and Executive Director of Comenius Foundation

Comenius Foundation (US)

Comenius Foundation is a U.S.-based 501 nonprofit organization that uses media to promote education and faith. Named after pioneering educator and Moravian Bishop John Amos Comenius, the Foundation seeks to use modern media to promote the ideas of Comenius...

, a 501(c)(3) that supports faith related and educational media projects. He has also long served on the Board of Directors of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission, promoting filmmaking education and business in central North Carolina.

Filmography

Jackman has worked on numerous video and television productions, including The Moravian Video Magazine a periodical video news journal that was distributed to all Moravian Churches from 1989-1994. His films have mostly been on historical faith themes.

Director

Year	Title	Role
2001	Zinzendorf	Director, Writer
2003	Hymns of Praise	Director, Writer
2004	An Uncommon Union	Producer, Director
2009	Wesley Wesley (film) Wesley is a 2009 biopic about John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodist movement. The movie is based largely on the Wesley brother's own journals, including John's private journal which was kept in a shorthand-like code that was not translated until the 1980s by Dr...	Director, Writer

Publications

Jackman has written articles for many video and film production magazines, including Videomaker, Church Production, and 3D World. He was a regular columnist and contributing editor to DV Magazine from 1999 to 2008. In 2002, CMP Books published his Lighting for Digital Video and Television, now in its third edition under the imprint of Focal Press (Elsevier Books). The book is used as a text in many college production programs, and has been translated into Chinese. In 2007 Focal Press published his Bluescreen Compositing, a book on digital compositing especial effects. This book has been translated into Spanish.

Awards

Jackman's production work has been recognized by numerous peer-judged industry awards.

• 1997 Telly Award (documentary)
• 1998 Telly Award (commercial)
• 1999 Videographer Award (fundraising)
• 2001 Aurora Award (documentary)
• 2001 Aegis Award (documentary)
• 2001 Videographer Award (documentary)
• 2001 Aegis Award (children's)
• 2002 Communicator Award (children's)
• 2002 Crown Award (documentary) In'tl Christian Visual Media Assn.
• 2003 Communicator Award (instructional)
• 2004 Aegis Award (promotional)
• 2007 Aurora Award (short film)
• 2009 Gold Telly Classic Award (documentary series)
• 2010 Platinum FEXY Award (motion graphics/CGI special FX)
• 2010 Silver Telly Award (Religion & Spirituality)
• 2010 Bronze Telly Award (History & Biography)
• 2010 Bronze Telly Award (Lighting)
• 2010 Bronze Telly Award (CGI/Special Effects)
• 2010 Silver Crown - Best Drama Over $250k (ICVM Crown Awards)
• 2010 Bronze Crown - Best Picture (ICVM Crown Awards)
• 2010 First Place Feature Film Competition, Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival
• 2010 Platinum EMPixx Award, CGI/Special Effects

Jackman was recognized as the 2010 Humanitarian of the Year in the area of Technology by the ScottCares Foundation in Winston-Salem for his work educating young people in the technology of lighting and filmmaking.

Education and Ordination

Jackman majored in Philosophy, receiving his B.A. from Moravian College

Moravian College

Moravian College a private liberal arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.-History:...

 in 1979. He attended Moravian Theological Seminary

Moravian College

Moravian College a private liberal arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.-History:...

, graduating with a Master of Divinity Degree in 1982. He was ordained as a
deacon
deacon in the Moravian Church on September 5, 1982. He was consecrated a presbyter on October 12, 1986.

Denominational and Ecumenical Work

Jackman has been active in leadership in both the Southern and Northern provinces of the Moravian Church. In 1988, he was appointed as chairman of the Division of Communications for the Northern Province, a position which involved him in the entire publications ministry of the worldwide Moravian Church. In this role he began work on the experimental "Moravian Video Magazine," a quarterly video program that was sent to all Moravian churches in America. He has been active in ecumenical work in each of his parishes. He served on the Board of directors of the Greater Reading Council of Churches in Reading, Pennsylvania (now the Reading-Berks Council of Churches). For a number of years, he served as host of the GRCC's local Public-access television

Public-access television

Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...

 cable TV call-in program on BCTV, one of the first experimental local Public-access television programs in the country. During this period, the GRCC developed an emergency assistance program for the county, S.H.A.R.E. (Survival Help/Assistance & Referral in Emergency) a partnership with the Salvation Army to minister to those in poverty.
Following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, Jackman served as coordinator for Moravian work crews to rebuild churches and schools on St Croix. In 1991, he traveled through Eastern Nicaragua documenting recovery from the aftermath of the Sandinista war.

While serving in Union, New Jersey, he helped reorganize the local Council of Churches and served as its president. He is best remembered in the area for his stunt of camping out on the roof of Battle Hill Moravian Church to raise funds for a reroofing, which was covered by local media including the New York area television stations. He currently serves as senior pastor of Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, NC and is Chair of the Board of Elders of Salem Congregation, the historic group of Moravian churches that originated in Salem

Old Salem

Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It features a living history museum that interprets the restored Moravian community. The non-profit organization began its work in 1950, although some private residents had restored buildings earlier...

(now Winston-Salem) North Carolina.

External links

• http://www.johnjackman.com/index.php
• Wesley the Movie Official Web Site
• NPR Affiliate WFDD Featured Interview: "Voices & Viewpoints"
• "Second Cinema" Interview with host Hilary Russo