Jill Daniels
Jill Daniels | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Wimbledon School of Art University of the Arts London Royal College of Art University of East London |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1976–present |
Employer | University of East London[1] |
Website | www |
Dr Jill Daniels is a British independent filmmaker and a Senior Lecturer in Film at University of East London.[1]
Early life
[edit]Daniels was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England and comes from a Jewish family of Romanian and Russian (now Lithuania) descent. She studied fine art at Wimbledon School of Art.[2] She received an M.A. in Film and Television from the Royal College of Art, London and gained her PhD at the University of East London.[3] She was a founding member and the London Secretary of the Independent Filmmakers Association [4] and Secretary of the Working Women's Charter Campaign and editor of the newspaper Women's Fight.
Career
[edit]Daniels joined the Working Women’s Charter Campaign and edited the newspaper Women’s Fight, from 1977 to 1981 [citation needed]. In 1991 she was a jury member of the Huesca International Film Festival, Spain.[5] In 2014 she gained her PhD in Film from the University of East London. She wrote a chapter for the book Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited (2013), Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and was co-editor with Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin.[6] In 2019 she published the book Memory, Place and Autobiography, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She is co-Chair of the editorial board of the academic Journal, Media Practice and Education.[7][8] She wrote a chapter entitled 'Scripting the Experimental Documentary Film: Developing the 'script' for Not Reconciled', for The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development eds. Stayci Taylor & Craig Batty (2022).
Filmography:
- If Not Now (2023) https://vimeo.com/789270145/380e4614ce, Best Short Documentary, Mannheim arts and film festival, 2023.
- Resisters (2021) https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/13.1/10, Best Protagonist, ProToPost Communist Film Festival, Italy, 2023.
- Breathing Still 2020 (2020) https://vimeo.com/398485823
- Breathing Still (2018) https://vimeo.com/253291495, Jury Award, Best Documentary, Small Axe @Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival, 2018.
- Journey to the South (2017) https://vimeo.com/196726666
- My Private Life II (2015) https://vimeo.com/139077147, Honorable Mention, Experimental Forum Film Festival, 2017; Best Experimental Film, Ann Arbor Experimental Film Festival, USA, 2017. (AAFF voted North America’s No. 1 Film Festival for 2019 in the USA TODAY 10 Best Readers' Choice travel award contest); Nominated in ‘Innovation’, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Film Awards, 2016.
- My Private Life (2014) https://vimeo.com/101938665, Honorable Mention. Athens International Film Festival, Ohio, USA. 2014. https://athensfilmfest.org/2015-winners/
- The Border Crossing (2011) https://vimeo.com/93590375, 3rd prize, Best Feature Documentary, Athens International Film Festival, Ohio, USA. 2012.
- Next Year In Lerin (2010) [2000] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72gRd3PKAtI
- Not Reconciled (2009) https://vimeo.com/28050084, Best Direction, Bruxelles Online Film Festival, Belgium. 2010; Special Mention, Festival de Cine de Granada, Spain. 2010.
- Small Town Girl (2007) https://vimeo.com/92532574, Best UK Documentary, British Film Festival, Los Angeles. 2010; Best Documentary Feature, filmdirecting4women Film Festival, London. UK. 2009; Nominated Best UK Documentary, Swansea Bay Film Festival, Wales. 2008.
- Lost in Gainesville (2005) https://vimeo.com/95210232
- Fool’s Gold (2002) https://vimeo.com/92523649
- Exiles (1991) https://cinenova.org/artist/jill-daniels/
- I'm In Heaven (1990) https://cinenova.org/artist/jill-daniels/ - Best Fiction Film, Huesca Short Film Festival, Spain, 1991.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jill Daniels - University of East London (UEL)". www.uel.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Category:Alumni of Wimbledon College of Arts", Wikipedia, 7 December 2021, retrieved 1 June 2024
- ^ "Dr Jill Daniels : UEL Research Repository". repository.uel.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "LUX Online template". www.luxonline.org.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "Huesca International Film Festival. Huesca". Spain.info. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Daniels, Jill; McLaughlin, Cahal; Pearce, Gail, eds. (2013). Truth, dare or promise: art and documentary revisited (1. publ ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publ. ISBN 978-1-4438-4959-3.
- ^ https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rjmp21
- ^ Daniels, Jill (2019). Memory, Place and Autobiography: Experiments in Documentary Filmmmaking. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-2135-3.