Jazzie Jelks

Animation director from rural Alabama and originator of Black Rural Futurism™. Raised on Ghibli, Disney, and Pixar, I make stylized films that play with reality and find the extraordinary in ordinary life: Gothic fairy tales, claymation, the secret life of a beach ball. Many center Black American characters and the South that raised me. I push AI filmmaking toward work that reads as hand-made, with stories that convict you and stay with you. No permission needed.