User:JR NILES

Award winning screenwriter and director, J.R. Niles is an American Filmmaker, Musician, Poet, Songwriter and the visionary behind The Hollywood Women's Film Institute. Niles came out of the LA Rock Music scene of the late 1990s. She began writing and directing films in 2009 and holds both a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master's Degree in International Comparative Politics from The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her early years were spent as an East Coast beach kid, playing guitar and hanging out in New York City, before traveling overseas, then, moving to San Francisco in her late teens. After a few years she made her way to Los Angeles and found her home in Southern California music culture. Niles comes from a family that had a number of Jazz artists on her father's side and classical music artists on her mother's side. For Niles music is first blood.

Niles an artistic visionary, began writing and directing films in 2010. Her first two films included, On This Land Kilimanjaro filmed in Tanzania, Africa at Mt. Kilimanjaro and her film on Women of the French Resistance in WWII, The Art of Resistance, filmed in Paris, France. She directed both films during her time at UCLA. In 2012 she directed a documentary on sex trafficking, (Beyond The Silence) filmed in San Francisco, and in 2013 she directed a documentary short on the legendary Duke Ellington. Since then she has gone on to write, direct and produce both narrative films and documentaries.