Dr Jill Daniels is a British independent

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

and a Senior Lecturer in Film at

University of East London , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

Early life

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 Wimbledon College of Arts, formerly Wimbledon School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London specialising in theatre, screen and performance art. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London. ...

. She received an M.A. in Film and Television from the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

, London and gained her PhD at the

. She was a founding member and the London Secretary of the Independent Filmmakers Association .

Career

Daniels joined 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 .

References

External links

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Staff webpage at UEL
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daniels, Jill Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English film directors English people of Romanian-Jewish descent English people of Russian-Jewish descent Mass media people from Manchester Alumni of Wimbledon College of Arts Alumni of the University of the Arts London Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of the University of East London