Jacqueline Olive is an independent filmmaker, digital media producer, and founder of Tell It Media. She’s received artist grants from Sundance Institute, Independent Television Service, Firelight Media, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Catapult Film Fund, Southern Documentary Fund, Alternate ROOTS, Cucalorus Foundation, and more. After receiving a master’s degree from the University of Florida Documentary Institute in 2007, Jacqueline worked on the production team of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary series, Independent Lens, and the PBS WORLD series, Global Voices, for three seasons. Jacqueline also co-directed and produced the award-winning documentary, Black to Our Roots, which broadcast on PBS WORLD. Jacqueline is currently directing the documentary feature film, Always in Season, which explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this historic form of racial terrorism to racial violence today with the stories of relatives of the perpetrators and victims who are seeking justice and reconciliation. Jacqueline gained experience with transmedia production as a fellow with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Institute for New Media Technologies and Mediamaker Fellows, the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) New Media Institute, and, most recently, the Open Immersion VR Lab sponsored by the Ford Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Canadian Film Centre. In 2010, Jackie headed the development team that created a prototype of a 3D virtual reality (VR) environment that gives users an immersive look at the dynamics of mob violence. The project is featured in the MIT Open Documentary Lab Docubase. Jacqueline is currently producing a VR project that uses 360° video and computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation to explore the film’s theme of dehumanization and offer users strategies for moving confidently through the racialized public spaces that women of color navigate daily.