Billy Jackson Producer and Director, is a national award-winning documentarian and principal owner of NOMMO Productions, producer of more than 50 documentary, dramatic, and promotional films. NOMMO’s clients have included Alcoa, BET, Duquesne Light, ACLU, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Administration, and the NYC Dept. of General Service, among others. For many years he also freelanced as acinematographer for Blackside, Inc. He has taught film courses at Emerson College and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and served as consultant, cinematographer, and/or producer for government, industry, independent production houses, and television stations.

In 1982, Jackson was co-producer and production manager for "Booker T. Washington," which won the Cine Golden Eagle award. Jackson founded Community Media (CM) in 1989 and served as Program Director until 2003. Community Media was a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization that offered neighborhood film screenings, trained youth in video production and presentation, produced documentaries about contemporary issues, and provided video documentation services for nonprofit organizations. "A Safe Place," a CM-produced documentary about gangs, won Best Community Produced Video in 1996 from the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Another CM video, "Things That Fit," on August Wilson’s play, "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom," won a Cultural Affairs runner-up award in l999 from the National Black Programming Consortium.

Jackson received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University and MEd from Harvard, and has made a lifelong study of youth education in
media arts. He served four years on the media panel for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and one year on the Creative Teaching Partners panel for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has served on the boards of several media, social service, and arts organizations. He is committed to increasing resources for media arts and multicultural programming, and providing greater opportunities for developing artists.