Michael Taylor Jackson is a writer, director, actor and a visual artist who attended art school in Buenos Aires before moving to New York City to complete an MFA in Film Directing from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in 2019. While in school, his short film Harlemites screened at the Cinequest, Sarasota, and Sonoma Film Festival where he won the Best Dramatic Short and the American Diversity Award. In 2024, Jackson's debut feature Underground Orange premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and went on to screen at over thirty festivals across four continents, receiving numerous accolades. Among these are the Audience Choice Award at the Goiânia International Film Festival in Brazil, Best Queer Feature at the RIFF Awards in Italy, Best Feature Film at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival in California, and the Social Justice Award at the Queens World Film Festival in New York City. The film was also one of ten selected to compete for the prestigious Golden Crow Pheasant Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala in India.