Jodi Cilley is an American

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and

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known for founding Film Consortium San Diego and San Diego Film Awards.

Life and career

Cilley was born and raised in Barre, Vermont. In 1999, she graduated from

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifi ...

with a BA in Sociology. By 2010, Cilley finished her MBA in Business Administration-Entrepreneurship at

San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) syste ...

and in 2011, was an instructor for Media Arts Center San Diego. Cilley became a part of the advisory committee for

GI Film Festival San Diego The GI Film Festival (GIFF), a 501c3 non-profit organization founded by Army veteran Laura Law-Millett and her husband Brandon Millett, is "dedicated to preserving the stories of American veterans past and present through film, television and li ...

and a Community Voices contributor for

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in 2020. Later that year,

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produced ''Panic at Parq'', a tribute

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

to Cilley.

Film Consortium San Diego

Cilley founded the Film Consortium San Diego in 2012. The Film Consortium collaborated with the Arts Program at

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to form the Quarantine Film Challenge in 2020. Later that year, a Black Lives Matter Film Challenge was announced. In 2021, KPBS launched Film Consortium TV. Red Carpet for the San Diego Film Awards 2017

Red Carpet for the San Diego Film Awards 2017

San Diego Film Week

In 2017, Cilley founded San Diego Film Week. It was a ten day event of screenings that partnered with numerous local festivals including the

San Diego International Film Festival The San Diego International Film Festival (SDIFF) is an independent film festival in San Diego, California produced by the non-profit San Diego Film Foundation. The main event has traditionally been held annually in the autumn at venues in the ...

and the

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. ''Wonderland Syndrome'', one of many films at the 2018 festival, was funded with the help of the Film Consortium.

References

External links

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Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cilley, Jodi Living people American women film producers Film producers from California American women in film Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni People from Barre, Vermont Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women San Diego State University alumni People from San Diego American women educators