Dr Jill Daniels is a British independent filmmaker and a Senior Lecturer in Film at University of East London.^[1]

Daniels was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England and comes from a Jewish family of Romanian and Russian (now Lithuania) extraction ^{[citation needed]}. She studied fine art at Wimbledon School of Art ^{[citation needed]}. She received an M.A. in Film and Television from the Royal College of Art, London and gained her PhD at the University of East London ^{[citation needed]}. She was a founding member and the London Secretary of the Independent Filmmakers Association ^{[citation needed]} and Secretary of the Working Women's Charter Campaign and editor of the newspaper Women's Fight.

Daniels joined the Working Women’s Charter Campaign and edited the newspaper Women’s Fight, from 1977 to 1981 ^{[citation needed]}. In 1991 she was a jury member of the Huesca International Film Festival, Spain ^{[citation needed]}. In 2014 she gained her PhD in Film from the University of East London. She wrote a chapter for the book Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited (2013), Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne as well as being co-editor with Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin ^{[citation needed]}. In 2019 she published the book Memory, Place and Autobiography, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She is co-Chair of the editorial board of the academic Journal, Media Practice and Education ^{[citation needed]}.