Jill Daniels

Daniels was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England and comes from a Jewish family of Romanian and Russian extraction . She studied fine art at Wimbledon School of Art . 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 . She was a founding member and the London Secretary of the Independent Filmmakers Association .

Danielsjoined the Working Women’s Charter Campaign and edited the newspaper Women’s Fight, from 1977 to 1981 . In 1991 she was a jury member of the Huesca International Film Festival, Spain . She wrote a chapter for the book Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited (2013), Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne . In 2019 she published the book Memory, Place and Autobiography, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal, Media Practice and Education .

Daniels' work has been shown, amongst others, at the Barbican, London, the National Film Theatre, London; the Cinematheque, Lisbon; the Flea Pit, London and at the film festivals Expanded Cinema, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Feminale, Cologne, Germany; Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania; Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, US; Creteil, France; Nuoro, Sardinia; Taipei, Taiwan; British Film Festival, Los Angeles; Ann Arbor, USA . In 2011 she toured Australia with her updated version of Next Year in Lerin.

Grants from the Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam Film Festival; The Open Society Human Rights Film Fund now incorporated into the Sundance Film Festival; South East Arts, UK; Northern Arts, UK; Border Television, UK; Macedonian Human Rights Society, Canada; Report International Ltd

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