| Joanne Jackson, President and Executive Producer of Brilliant Red Media brings over fifteen years of producing high profile series and specials for broadcasters and independent producers. These include HGTV’s Designer Super Star Challenge II and W Network’s Groomed. She has also worked at City-TV, CBC, CTV, Rogers and the Life Channel. In 2001 - 2002, she was a Production Executive at WTN (Now W network) and, prior to that, she earned seven Gemini nominations for her work at YTV where she was a Supervising Producer and Executive Producer of the YTV Achievement Awards. |
| In 2006-2007, Brilliant Red Media was the executive producer of the award-winning documentary Long Haul Big Hearts, an intriguing story about a Canadian long haul trucker who travelled with his blind dog to the Hurricane Katrina ravaged Gulf Coast of Mississippi to bring relief supplies. |
| Long Haul Big Hearts had its world premiere at the Hearts and Minds Film Festival in Delaware in March 2007, winning the Crystal Heart Directors Award. It also won a Platinum Remi Award at Houston Worldfest. The film premiered on VisionTV in July 2007 and was also telecast on OLN in August 2007, the second anniversary of Katrina. |
| Brilliant Red Media currently has other projects in development including The World’s Greatest Cooking Vacations, Chip Truck Diaries, Indigos, Building Walls of Hope and Doors Opened. |
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