Biography

Jane Gillooly is an independent producer / director and educator living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gillooly's produced works have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony.

Gillooly's current production a short black & white silent film, Dragonflies, The Baby Cries is a collaboration with the Alloy Orchestra who accompany the film live. This experimental narrative has been honored with major screenings in the premiere national venues for independent media.

Her most recent documentary project Theme: Murder, was co-produced and co-written with director Martha Swetzoff and won Best Documentary at the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and a Gold Apple from the National Educational Film Festival.

Gillooly is also the Director/Producer of Leona's Sister Gerri, the critically acclaimed documentary produced for PBS for national broadcast through the Independent Television Service. Premiering at new Directors New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and awarded Best Documentary from the Nation Women's Political Caucus.

Other work includes, So Sad, So Sorry, So What, one of the first documentaries produced about incarcerated women with AIDS, and Shrine to Ritualized Time an outdoor video installation produced with animator Karen Aqua for the city of Boston to commemorate the end of the millennium.

Gillooly has a background in photography, design and inter-disciplinary media. She is a faculty member at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Massachusetts College or Art.