Biography

Jill Knox-Gosse is the Founder and President of Odd Sock Films, a Newfoundland-based award-winning company that creates and produces original content for film and television. Knox-Gosse has more than 15 years of experience producing national and international co-productions with partners in Canada and Ireland.

Knox-Gosse recently executive produced the environmental documentary Hell or Clean Water, which was selected for the prestigious 2021 Hot Docs Festival where it was named one of five winners of the Rogers Audience Award. In 2017 she produced the critically acclaimed An Audience of Chairs which received the Gordon Parsons Award for Best Atlantic Feature (2018) at the FIN International Atlantic Film Festival. At the festival, the movie also received awards for Best Director, Best Screenwriter and Best Musical Score. Knox-Gosse produced the hailed documentary Atlantic (2016) which was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary at the Irish Film and Television Awards. Her comedic feature Relative Happiness (2014) received the award for Best Actress at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, Best Picture at Screen Nova Scotia, and Best Actress at the Canadian Film Festival, as well as the Le Prix du Lions Club Award at the Festival du Canadien de Dieppe, the Competition Borosos Award at the Whistler International Film Festival and Directors Guild of Canada Team Award. Relative Happiness was also a hit with audiences across Canada hitting the Top Five Canadian Films at the Box Office. The movie has been sold in several countries including Australia, Spain, China, South Korea, Turkey, and the Philippines. Knox-Gosse produced the award-winning indie feature film Grown Up Movie Star (2009) starring internationally renowned actor Tatiana Maslany which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2010) and was winner of a Special Jury Prize. Grown Up Movie Star also received three esteemed Genie nominations. Knox-Gosse's notable credits also include having produced CBC's the Nature of Things documentary White Wolves: Ghost of the Arctic (2017), narrated by David Suzuki. She is a member of the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (NIFCO), the Producers Association of Newfoundland (PAN), and the Canadian Film and Media Producers Association (CMPA).
- IMDb mini biography by: Andrea Cooper