Biography

Jill Campbell is an award-winning filmmaker whose documentary Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue earned Telly Awards in Editing and Documentary, seven jury awards including Best Documentary at the Omaha Film Festival (2025) and the Grand Jury Best of Festival prize at the Vermont Film and Folklore Festival, a Best Director nomination at the Woodstock Film Festival (2024), and an IFC/AMC theatrical release through Tribeca Films/Giant Pictures. The film has screened at 30+ festivals worldwide, holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is available on PBS. She began her career in the theater, writing and producing plays at New York's Public Theater, LaMama, the Dublin Fringe Festival, across the London fringe scene, and as a fellow at Mabou Mines before transitioning into documentary production with the 2010 documentary Dancing Across Borders (Seattle Film Festival, Netflix, Apple TV). Following that debut feature, Jill has worked as a producer on over 15 feature and short-form documentaries that have screened at major festivals worldwide including Tribeca, DOC NYC, Atlanta, Art FIFA, Hamptons Doc Fest, Montclair, Miami, Seattle, Woodstock, and Warsaw. Most recently, she served as a Field Producer on Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story (Kevin Bright, Jeff Consiglio, American Masters, 2020). Jill has written and directed three feature-length documentaries including Mr. Chibbs (Cargo Films), a 2017 Village Voice Critic's Pick tracing the rise and fall of NBA legend Kenny Anderson, and Seat 20D (First Run Features, 2020), a meditation on the healing power of self-expression that follows artist Suse Lowenstein's journey through grief following the murder of her son and the creation of Dark Elegy, a large-scale sculpture garden in Montauk, NY. Both films are streaming on Amazon, Kanopy, and Apple TV. Jill holds an MFA from Hunter College's IMA program with a concentration in documentary filmmaking. In 2015 she was awarded a fellowship to Killer Films/Stony Brook Southampton's 20/20/20 program and has been a Mabou Mines Resident Artist. She serves as Chair of the Producers Guild's Documentary Salon and has been an Adjunct instructor at Purchase College and Adelphi University.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jill Campbell