Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow was born outside Philadelphia and now resides in New York City. She is an independent filmmaker, primarily of non-fiction works, and an advocate for Post-Realism in documentary.
Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1974, her film with collaborator Judy Collins, , about the pioneering female conductor Antonia Brico, received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was later selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003.
In 1984, she made Far From Poland, a non-fiction, post-realist feature about the Polish Solidarity movement filmed entirely in the U.S.
She made a dramatic feature film called Waiting for the Moon, a biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas played by actresses Linda Hunt and Linda Bassett. It was produced for PBS's American Playhouse series, released theatrically by Skouras Pictures, and won Best Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987.
In 1998, her film What Farocki Taught premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film is a replica, in color and in English, of Harun Farocki's 1969 black and white German language film called Inextinguishable Fire, on the production of Napalm at Dow Chemical Company. Her film was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
Godmilow is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
