Chelsea Jackson is a documentary film director & editor who has edited two national Emmy Award-winning films and specializes in cinema vérité style story development. Her recent work includes directing and editing two Heartland Emmy-nominated episodes of PBS12’s Decode Colorado series - one on teen mental health and another on the social determinants of health. Editing work includes: THE HOLLY (May, 2022), winner of a 2025 News and Doc Emmy, winner of a 2024 Heartland Emmy, winner of the 2023 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for best documentary, winner of Mountainfilm’s audience choice award for best feature, winner of the Jury Award for best feature documentary at Santa Fe International Film Festival; AMBER: THE GIRL BEHIND THE ALERT (2023, for Peacock), nominated for a 2024 News and Doc Emmy; THE LOVE BUGS (2019), News and Doc Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Short Documentary as well as five audience choice awards for best short documentary; WELCOME STRANGERS (2020), winner of eight festival awards and one honorable mention; MY MOTHER MY FRIEND: LINDSAY'S LIFE SAVING GIFT (2018), a 2019 Heartland Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Human Interest Special; and FELIX (2018), a multiple audience choice award-winner for best short documentary including at Woods Hole Film Festival and Mountainfilm in Aspen.

Chelsea graduated from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan with a BFA in Entertainment Arts. She is currently directing and editing a short documentary about an elementary school musical titled THEATER KIDS, and editing a feature for the University of Colorado's 150-year anniversary.