Eleonore Dailly is an American filmmaker. She was born in Paris and
raised in New York City. Her producing credits include Dirt! The
Movie, a feature-length film which premiered at Sundance Film Festival
in 2009 and Swelter.Dailly received an MFA from the USC School of
Cinematic Arts Peter Stark Producer Program in 2007. She began her
career in development at DreamWorks and with Academy Award producer
Bruce Cohen. Dailly produced and co-directed the feature film DIRT!,
featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, which was nominated for the Grand Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival before premiering on PBS's
Independent Lens. She then developed and produced Swelter, a moody
action film starring Alfred Molina, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lennie
James, Grant Bowler and Jean-Claude Van Damme, which was released in
August 2014 and has been nominated for the 19th Satellite
Awards.Dailly is a member of Producer's Guild of America, the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences, Women in Film. She co-chairs the
Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), a non-profit company promoting
parity for female directors that partners with Women In Film and the
Sundance Initiative for Women Directors. Other members of the AWD
include Debra Granik, Michelle McLarren, Leslie Linka Glatter, Ava
DuVernay and Jen McGowan. Dailly now runs the production outfit Film
Invaders which focuses on television and feature film development. She
also coordinates publicity for FX's Emmy-nominated television series
Justified.Dailly received her law degree from Columbia University
School of Law in 1998, with a focus on intellectual property and
finance law. While at Columbia, she worked with Jane Carol Ginsburg,
as her research assistant on issues of intellectual property law.
Dailly then practiced international civil litigation in New York City
for Sullivan & Cromwell and Morrison & Foerster and human rights law
in Argentina, Kenya and Uganda.
raised in New York City. Her producing credits include Dirt! The
Movie, a feature-length film which premiered at Sundance Film Festival
in 2009 and Swelter.Dailly received an MFA from the USC School of
Cinematic Arts Peter Stark Producer Program in 2007. She began her
career in development at DreamWorks and with Academy Award producer
Bruce Cohen. Dailly produced and co-directed the feature film DIRT!,
featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, which was nominated for the Grand Jury
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival before premiering on PBS's
Independent Lens. She then developed and produced Swelter, a moody
action film starring Alfred Molina, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lennie
James, Grant Bowler and Jean-Claude Van Damme, which was released in
August 2014 and has been nominated for the 19th Satellite
Awards.Dailly is a member of Producer's Guild of America, the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences, Women in Film. She co-chairs the
Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), a non-profit company promoting
parity for female directors that partners with Women In Film and the
Sundance Initiative for Women Directors. Other members of the AWD
include Debra Granik, Michelle McLarren, Leslie Linka Glatter, Ava
DuVernay and Jen McGowan. Dailly now runs the production outfit Film
Invaders which focuses on television and feature film development. She
also coordinates publicity for FX's Emmy-nominated television series
Justified.Dailly received her law degree from Columbia University
School of Law in 1998, with a focus on intellectual property and
finance law. While at Columbia, she worked with Jane Carol Ginsburg,
as her research assistant on issues of intellectual property law.
Dailly then practiced international civil litigation in New York City
for Sullivan & Cromwell and Morrison & Foerster and human rights law
in Argentina, Kenya and Uganda.
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