Jane Gillooly is an independent producer / director and educator living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her most recent non-fiction film is TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK.
Witnessing the highest HIV infection rate in the world and the lowest life expectancy, three grandmothers in Swaziland demonstrate their creative efforts to rescue a rural community on the verge of collapse.

Today The Hawk Takes One Chick moves delicately through verite footage and intimate conversations, simultaneously showing the beauty, humor, joy, and deeply held spiritual beliefs of a community, and how these qualities are in stark contrast with the urgency of everyday life.

These women refuse to abandon their families to a world dictated by AIDS, drought and poverty. They seize every opportunity to feed their children, educate their neighbors and bring needed healthcare to their isolated valley.
We are left to ponder one grandmother's question: "What will happen when all the grannies are dead?"

OTHER FILMSS:
"Dragonflies, The Baby Cries", a 35mm award winning short premiered with the Film Society at Lincoln Center in NYC. The short is currently on tour with the Alloy Orchestra who perform a live score to the film.

"Theme: Murder" (1998), was co-produced and co-written with director Martha Swetzoff. The film was selected to represent the United States at INPUT, the International Public Television conference.

Gillooly is also the Director/Producer of "Leona's Sister Gerri" (1994) the critically acclaimed documentary produced for PBS for national broadcast through the Independent Television Service. Included in the 2007 release of the Best Of P.O.V.

Gillooly has a background in photography, design and interdisciplinary media. She is a professor of Film at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts.