Hooroo Jackson

Hooroo Jackson is an Iranian American filmmaker from Baltimore. Born December 3rd, 1985 to immigrant parents, his father was a mathematician and his mother was a painter. Hooroo began as a wunderkind editor, winning a national C-SPAN competition for filmmaking in 2003. In 2014, he was covered in the Wall Street Journal as an early proponent of Bitcoin, and has since called three generations of crypto, with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Chainlink. Aimy in a Cage was released in 2015, starring Allisyn Ashley Arm, Crispin Glover, and Paz de la Heurta, a film he called a millennial treatise: "Our generation struggles for cred, we struggle to fuse an identity from the pop culture which raised us; so I started with a cartoon character, an outsider Bugs Bunny, and wanted to peel back her layers to explore the vacuum beneath her pixie persona." The film was a cinematic fusion of styles, moods and influences; "Aimy is my postmodern Antoine Doinel via Philip K Dick. The theme of collapse, government overreach, familial breakdown, all were alien to the culture when I made the film, now in the age of information warfare are par for the course. Societal strife was in my blood." Aimy won him the Director's Prize in the 2015 Portland Film Festival where the film's color and style drew comparisons to Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and David Lynch, and found success as a cult favorite.