Shelbia L. Jackson

Shelbia Jackson is the founding director of DeKalb County’s TV/Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office also known as the DeKalb Entertainment Commission tasked with the implementation of the DeKalb Entertainment Strategic Plan. Over the last five years, she has secured and managed cumulative budget of $1.5M, worked with over 500 production companies to process over 1K film permit applications that generated over $1M direct film permit revenue. She has hosted or participated in over 700 cumulative meetings, presentations, events, panels, and conferences over last the five years. Under her leadership her office has had a direct positive impact on DeKalb’s creative economy estimated by the Atlanta Region Commission to reach $1.377B economic output by 2023.

She has helped established a unified consistent film administration process across the 13 cities and unincorporated areas of DeKalb to successfully establish DeKalb as the premier location for entertainment and film production. A few of these critically acclaimed projects include: Bad Boys 3, Raising Dion, The Passage, MacGyver, Doom Patrol, P-Valley, Green Leaf, Black Lightning, Love Craft Country, Ozark, Star Girl, Dynasty, Legacies, Stranger Things, Venom, and Black Widow.