Jill D'Agnenica
Editing
Biography
Jill D’Agnenica is a visual artist, filmmaker, and mother of two girls. She works as a film and television editor and director. Her feature directorial debut, Life Inside Out, won Best Premiere at the Heartland Film Festival in 2013 and subsequently screened at 20 North American festivals, receiving 15 audience and jury awards. She recently directed a series of PSAs for Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, through the Los Angeles Women in Film PSA production program. She recently directed her first episode of television on Freeform’s Switched at Birth. Jill holds a BA in history from UCLA and an MFA in Visual Art from Claremont Graduate University.
Known For
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
How to Get Away with Murder
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
Switched at Birth
A young woman is recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of the recently deceased, using their memories to investigate murders.
Stitchers
A young and successful insurance underwriter must allow her mentally unstable mother to move in with her after the institution in which the mother had been living is deemed unfit for occupancy. The mother then begins to dislike how close her daughter is with her boss.
Nothing Special
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.