Jahmil Eady
Directing
Biography
Jahmil Eady is an American filmmaker from Charleston, SC, and NYC who blends genre with social impact storytelling. Eady recently completed American Film Institute’s DWW+ program where she wrote and directed her short film, Hatchlings. Eady earned her BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA where she was the Inaugural Graduate Class Artist, representing over 14,000 Bruins for the class of 2023. She is also the Princess Grace Foundation’s inaugural Sir Roger Moore Honoree in Filmmaking. Eady began her career in unscripted film and television and was an associate producer on documentary projects for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Viceland and Discovery Networks. Collectively, her award-winning short films have screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide, including several Academy Award® and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals. Her work has also been supported by Tribeca Institute, Chanel, Film Independent, and NFMLA NewNarratives. She is currently a director in Indeed and Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Season 5.
Known For
The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.
Riley
Pregnant and incarcerated, Aria fights for her most precious connection against a system designed to isolate her.
The Bond
A resentful teenager is forced to babysit her turtle-obsessed half-brother; meanwhile, he dives into a vivid fantasy world where he is a sea turtle and she is a tortoise.
Hatchlings
When gentrifiers suddenly begin dying mysteriously, a Gullah Geechee handywoman who recently lost her home, must decide whether to use her ancestral knowledge to save them or leave the newcomers to their fate.