Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow (* 1943 ) is an American film producer and director.
Life
Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin . She made her debut as a filmmaker in 1974 with Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman , a documentary about the conductor Antonia Brico , which was nominated for an Oscar and was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003. In 1984 Far From Poland was made , a documentary about the Polish Solidarność movement.
The only feature film to date has been Wating for the Moon , a biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokla with the leading actresses Linda Hunt and Linda Bassett . It was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival . Her film What Farocki Taught , shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1998, ties in with Harun Farocki's film Inextinguishable Fire about napalm production at Dow Chemical . In 2000 she received a Guggenheim scholarship .
In 2003 she produced Lear '87 Archive (Condensed) , a triple DVD about a production of King Lear by the theater collective Mabou Mines under the direction of Lee Breuer , in which all roles were cast against the sexes (leading role: Ruth Maleczech ). Godmilow and others made other documentaries. a. about the sculptor Louise Nevelson ( Nevelson in Process ), Richard Dyer-Bennett's performance of the Odyssey ( The Odyssey Tapes ) and the Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski ( The Vigil and With Grotowski, Nienadówka ). From 1992 until her retirement she was a professor in the Film, Television, and Theater Department at the University of Notre Dame .
Web links
- Jill Godmilow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Jill Godmilow
- Google Sites - Jill Godmilow
- Women Make Movies - Jill Godmilow
- University of Notre Dame - Jill Godmilow
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godmilow, Jill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |