Eleonore Dailly is an American filmmaker. She was born in Paris and raised in New York City. Her producing credits include I Am Not An Easy Man'', a Netflix hit comedy, '' Mixte'', '' I Love America'' and '
Dirt! The Movie
''Dirt! The Movie'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. It was inspired by the book ''Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth'' by William Bryant Logan. The documen ...
'', a feature-length film which premiered in competition at
Sundance Film Festival
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.
Career
Producing
Dailly received an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts Peter Stark Producer Program in 2007. She began her career in development at DreamWorks and with Academy Award producer
Alliance of Women Directors
The Alliance of Women Directors (AWD) is an American 501c(3) nonprofit organization created to support education and advocacy for women directors in film, television, and new media. The AWD, established in 1997, has over 250 members and is based in ...
(AWD), a non-profit company promoting parity for female directors that partners with Women In Film and the Sundance Initiative for Women Directors. Other members of the AWD include Debra Granik, Michelle McLarren, Leslie Linka Glatter, Ava DuVernay and
Jen McGowan
Jen McGowan is an American filmmaker. At the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, McGowan won the Gamechanger Award for ''Kelly & Cal'', her first feature film. McGowan is the creator of filmpowered.com, an international skill-sharing, network ...
.
Dailly now runs the production outfit Autopilot which focuses on television and feature film development. She also coordinated publicity for FX's Emmy-nominated television series '' Justified''.
Law
Dailly received her
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1998, with a focus on intellectual property and finance law. While at Columbia, she worked with
Jane Carol Ginsburg
Jane Carol Ginsburg (born July 21, 1955) is an American attorney. She is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the ...
, as her research assistant on issues of intellectual property law. Dailly then practiced international civil litigation in New York City for
Sullivan & Cromwell
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and
Morrison & Foerster
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and human rights law in Argentina, Kenya and Uganda.
Awards
In 2007, Eleonore Dailly was awarded the Debra Hill Fellowship for promising, young female filmmakers for her work on feature film development.
Filmography
* ''
Dirt! The Movie
''Dirt! The Movie'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. It was inspired by the book ''Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth'' by William Bryant Logan. The documen ...