Jill Nicholls | |
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Nationality | British |
Education | Hemel Hempstead Grammar School |
Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Filmmaker and journalist |
Awards | New Orleans Film Festival; Grierson Award; Royal Television Society Programme Awards |
Website | jillnicholls |
Jill Nicholls is a British filmmaker, best known for her art documentaries on television. Her films over the decades have frequently featured the lives of high-profile figures, including Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Diana Athill, Judith Kerr, Salman Rushdie, Vivian Maier, Louise Bourgeois and Tom Stoppard. Nicholls has won several awards for her films, including from the Royal Television Society, the Grierson Trust and the New Orleans Film Festival.[1] Also a journalist, she worked in the 1970s for women's liberation magazine Spare Rib, as well writing for other publications.