Jen Gilomen is an award-winning documentary producer, director, and cinematographer who has created films screened on PBS, Netflix, Amazon, and at film festivals around the world.  She produced and shot UNSETTLED, a feature doc by Tom Shepard which premiered in the SFFILM festival and on the PBS World Channel in 2019 before winning 17 awards and screening at over 50 festivals. With her long-time filmmaking partner Sally Rubin, Jen produced, directed and shot the short documentary LIFE ON THE LINE, which broadcast on PBS stations over 3600 times in its first six months of distribution.  Jen and Sally also co-directed and produced the feature documentary DEEP DOWN, which Jen shot and Sally edited. The film premiered on Independent Lens, streamed on Netflix and Amazon, participated in the U.S. State Department’s American Documentary Showcase, and received a national Emmy nomination. She recently produced THE CHAPLAIN & THE DOCTOR, a feature documentary from Reel Medicine Media. Jen often works collaboratively with participants and organizations and has done extensive documentary impact work since 2005.

In addition to directing, producing, and shooting her own work, Jen often creates client media and serves as a DP, additional cinematographer, or consulting producer for other talented Bay Area filmmakers.  She has had a long career mentoring and supporting other filmmakers as a director at BAVC Media, supervising producer at ITVS, board member of Working Films, member of distribution coöperative New Day Films, and co-founder of the Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers.  Jen is an associate of the U.C. Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program and member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, Film Fatales, and Bay Area Women Director’s Collective, and lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter. She is currently producing the feature doc COACH EMILY by director Pallavi Somusetty as well as directing, producing, and shooting films about different aspects of the maternal healthcare crisis.  She co-founded Moving People Media, a nonprofit production company, in 2023. [IMDB]