Jane Brill is an award-winning filmmaker and editor with over 20 years of experience. Her work as a producer, director, editor includes “CONTROL”, which won the award for best experimental film at the Athens International Film Festival in Ohio and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; “Bicycle Path,” which had its broadcast premiere on “Reel NY”, PBS; and “The ReTaking Of Pelham One Two Three,” which premiered at the New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center.
She has edited a number of independent documentaries, including “The Ten Commandments: Tyler’s Choice,” which screened at the IFC Center in New York and co-edited “Strong Man,” which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Slamdance. As a producer, she has worked on documentaries for UNICEF, educational films for The Jewish Museum and promotional advertising for a variety of cable networks including Showtime and The Movie Channel.
Her editing work includes feature-length and magazine-format documentaries for CBS, PBS, ABC, Logo, and MTV, and promotional branding commercials for Lifetime, ESPN, the Sundance Channel, and “Saturday Night Live.” She also enjoyed editing “Triumph the Comic Dog,” a performance video by Robert Smigel for “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”
Currently, Jane is creating a series of short artist portrait films for the Van Der Plas Gallery. The first in the series, “AL DIAZ: LIKE A BOMB” won Best Documentary at The Film Crash Festival in Santa Monica and Latino International Film Expo in Chicago. It continues to be presented at other film festivals both locally and internationally.
Brill graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a degree in film/video.