Jill Daniels
Jill Daniels is an award winning independent filmmaker whose films have been shown throughout the world.
In 1989 she made the short feature I’m In Heaven’, about a Jewish woman who, after an unhappy marriage, never leaves her high-rise flat and has retreated into a pastiche of Jewish ritual life. It won the prize for best fiction film at the Huesca Film Festival Spain in 1990.
Lost in Gainesville 2005 follows the journeys, internal and external, of Mexican migrants, trapped between the hope of a new and more prosperous life and a yearning for the world left behind.
Small Town Girl, 2007, filmed over 5 years, follows the lives of 3 adolescent girls in 2 small post-industrial towns in England.
Not Reconciled, 2009 explores the space between documentary and fiction through the voices of ghosts who tell the story of Belchite, a town in Northern Spain ruined in the Spanish civil war.
She is currently working on an autobiographical film exploring memory and trauma in Francoist Spain and teaches at the University of East London.
