Acting
Aug 13, 1975
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Jill Bennett
Acting
Biography
Jill is an award-winning producer, actor, and writer committed to expanding opportunities for underrepresented filmmakers. Her viral hit "We’re Getting Nowhere," widely credited by the press as “the video blog that started it all” for LGBTQ new media, led to a development deal with Viacom and a series of roles in television and film. Her acting work earned two Audience Choice Awards at Logo’s NewNowNext Awards. She has served on the Screen Actors Guild LGBTQ National Board and has spoken on LGBTQ media issues in more than two dozen cities worldwide, including mainstage appearances at San Francisco Pride, Clexacon Los Angeles, and Munich Pride. Jill later shifted her focus to writing and producing, launching two single-camera comedies with significant festival success: the two-season ensemble series" We Have to Stop Now," winner of three Curve Magazine Awards, and "Second Shot," which won Picture of the Year at London’s LFest. Together, both series screened at over 40 festivals worldwide. Since 2008, Jill has written and produced high-impact video content for Democratic and progressive causes. She most recently served as Creative Director for Volunteer Blue, a coalition of more than 30 national and regional grassroots organizations dedicated to registering voters and electing Democrats nationwide. Her work has generated millions of views across the social platforms of MoveOn, Indivisible, and Voters of Tomorrow. Her 2024 thriller feature, "Under the Influencer," was selected for Queer Screen’s prestigious Goes to Cannes initiative. It received the Panavision Award from the Micheaux Film Festival, Director’s Choice at Palm Springs Cinema Diverse, Best Feature at San Antonio QFest, and Best Feature at the San Francisco Queer Film Festival. She's currently in production on a horror-comedy feature entitled "The Transfer," which takes place on the campus of a fictional HBCU.
Feature Films (10)
Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodrat with no street cred, a poet not-so-well-versed in the art of love, and a womanipulator of men.
X's & O's
A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and back rooms of San Francisco, time grows short-will Lola make it? Will she come at all? With a pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography, And Then Came Lola explores love's age old question in a fresh new way, "If you try, try again, will you finally get it right?" (Written by M. Siler and E. Seidler)
And Then Came Lola
After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance, estranged sister Jeannie's wedding. As she tries not to steal Jeannie's thunder by telling her family that a) she's engaged, and b) the man she's going to marry is a Jewish African American, things get a little mixed up.
Out at the Wedding
When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote Pacific island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him.
In Her Line of Fire
Television & Series (8)
Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
Beverly Hills, 90210
A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.
Dante's Cove
Katherine "Kat" McDonald thought she had left her small Ohio hometown behind when she went out into the world to play pro soccer. When she gets word that her mentor, Dot, has died, Kat reluctantly returns home for the wake, only to learn she has inherited "Dot's Hole", the only gay bar in three counties.
Second Shot
Welcome to the gayest of gay ghettos, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-kids home. That is until Rick's lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten asks him to be the father of her child. There's just one catch, Kirsten's wife Dana and Rick's husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, and the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never looked so cute. Starring the voices of Alan Cumming, Peter Paige, Wilson Cruz, and Margaret Cho, with music from the creators of Avenue Q. Viewer discretion advised.
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.
