JACQUELINE OLIVE

Jacqueline Olive is an independent filmmaker with nearly twenty years of experience in journalism and film.  Her award-winning debut documentary film, Always in Season, has received numerous honors including winner of the 2019 Sundance Festival Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency and nominations for Best Writing from IDA Documentary Awards (2019) and Cinema Eye Honors (2019). Always in Season broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS in 2020 and was the highest rated film of the season.

In addition to creating the 2022 Peabody Award-winning VR project, Always in Season Island–Jackie directed, produced, and wrote the documentary film, Death is Our Business, which broadcast on FRONTLINE/PBS and the WORLD Channel in February 2021 and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning 4-part unscripted series Lincoln’s Dilemma, and directed two episodes for Apple TV (2023). 

While a 2021 Sundance Momentum Fellow, Jackie taught film at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Social Documentation M.F.A. Program through 2022. In 2023, she was awarded a Harvard University, Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Documentary Film Fellowship. 

Jackie continues to dedicate her career to making films and immersive media projects full-time, including the documentary feature film Color of Cola, which she is writing and co-directing with Academy Award-nominated director, Stanley Nelson. The project is in collaboration with All Day Every Day, Los Angeles Media Fund, JuVee, and PepsiCo. you can learn more about Color of cola  here.