Biography
Jackie Schwartz is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and activist, with a mission to create uplifting and inspirational films about marginalized communities. In 2014, she co-created, produced, and sold a digital series about a plus size heroine called Rare Birds of Fashion to a major network. Since then, she's produced multiple web series, shorts, and feature films which have premiered and won awards at festivals throughout the North America, including: Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Miami International Film Festival, Outfest, Cinequest, SeriesFest, Bentonville Film Festival, Dances with Films, ITVfest (now Catalyst), Nashville Film Festival, and more. In her career, she's been lucky enough to work with incredible talent including: Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Olsen, Gloria Steinem, Jill Kargman, Lloyd Kaufman, and more on films like: The Romantics, Margin Call, and Kill Your Darlings. Her film Dusty participated in the Outfest Screenwriting Lab Summer 2019 and the Middlebury Script Lab January 2020. Her series Mashed about women's pelvic pain won Best Episodic Series at Nashville Film Festival & Buffalo International Film Festival and received an Honorable Mention for the Caz Mathews Fund at SeriesFest. She was also a finalist in the 2020 Sundance Creative Producing Lab. Jackie is also the VP of Operations & Development at Besties Make Movies. Their feature film Triple Threat was acquired by Gravitas Ventures and is now streaming on all major platforms.
Jackie is a proud advocate of self-love and a board member of Realize Your Beauty, an organization dedicated to promoting positive body image to youth through theater arts.
