Jill Daniels

Small Town Girl

2007, 94 mins.

 

Shot over five years, a unique portrait of three adolescent girls, it shows the harsh realities of life in two small towns at either end of England at the start of the 21st century.

 

"A truly wonderful and poignant documentary. The portraits of these girls are so intimate and beautifully realised."
MadCat Women's International Film Festival

Lost in Gainsville

2005, 60 mins.

 

Hector, Olga and Thomas came from Mexico to the American south, in search of the ‘American Dream’. Lost in Gainesville hears their tales of lost hopes and dreams, in a town where work has dried up, fascists march against them and where rich whites live out lives of faded glory.

Spirits

2003, BetaSP, Colour. 5 mins.

 

A homage to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Spirits  explores the undercurrents of fear and violence when two opposing worlds collide.  Shot in a remote corner of Greece using slow motion, extreme close ups and point of view shots, Spirits  creates a metaphorical world of paranoia which builds to an unsettling climax.

Fools Gold

2002. BetaSP. Colour. 55 mins  

 

Dahlonega;  60 miles north of Atlanta;  Myra is part Cherokee, a cleaner in the local hotel.  She and husband Thomas and unemployed son Terry live in a trailer park.  In 1828 gold was found in Dahlonega;  The Cherokees were rounded up and force-marched to the west in the ‘Trail of Tears.’ Today Dahlonega is a rich town living off that history.

Not Reconciled

2009, 41 mins.

 

Rosa and Carlos, the ghosts of young Spanish civil war republicans, roam the ruins of Belchite in Northern Spain, waiting for the discovery of their unmarked graves.

Featuring the voices of Jose Antonio Garcia
and Judith Mora Toral