Jill Godmilow (November 23, 1943) is an American independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, and an advocate for Post-Realism in documentary. She is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the

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. Godmilow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Early life

She was born outside

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and now resides in New York City. Godmilow studied Russian literature at the

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Career

Godmilow"s 1974 film with collaborator Judy Collins, '' Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman'', about the pioneering female conductor

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, received a nomination for

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, and in 2003 was selected for the

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of the

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. In 1984, she made '' Far From Poland'', a non-fiction, post-realist feature about the Polish Solidarity movement, filmed entirely in the U.S. Her 1987 feature film '' Waiting for the Moon'' is a biography of

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and Alice B. Toklas, played by actresses

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and Linda Bassett. It was produced for PBS's ''

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'' series, released theatrically by

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, and won

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at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. In 1998, ''What Farocki Taught'' premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film is a replica, in color and in English, of

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's 1969 black and white German language film ''Inextinguishable Fire'', on the production of Napalm at Dow Chemical Company. Her film was featured in the 2000

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New York Times BiographyProfile on Video Data Bank"What's Wrong With the Liberal Documentary?", Jill Godmilow, Peace Review, March, 1999Un-Documenting History: An Interview with Filmmaker Jill Godmilow by Lynn C. Miller, Text Performance Quarterly, July 7, 1997, vol 7, number 3"How Real Is the Reality in Documentary Films?" Jill Godmilow in conversation with Ann-Louise Shapiro", History and Theory ,Vol 36, No. 4, 1997, Wesleyan University Press
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