Jill Godmilow (born 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 University of Notre Dame.[1][2] Godmilow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
She was born outside Philadelphia and now resides in New York City. Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Godmilow's 1974 film with collaborator Judy Collins, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, about the pioneering female conductor Antonia Brico, received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,[citation needed] and in 2003 was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.[4]
In 1984, she made Far From Poland,[5] a non-fiction, post-realist feature about the Polish Solidarity movement, filmed entirely in the U.S.[6]
Her 1987 feature film Waiting for the Moon is 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.[7]
In 1998, 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 Inextinguishable Fire,[8][9] on the production of Napalm at Dow Chemical Company. Her film was featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.[3]
