Helen Hill

Helen Hill

Known for

Directing

Born

May 9, 1970

Birthplace

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Died

January 4, 2007 (aged 36)

Biography

Helen Wingard Hill was an American animation filmmaker and social activist who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. When her final film, The Florestine Collection, was released in 2011, curators and critics described her as "one of the most well-regarded experimental animators of her generation."

In the pre-dawn hours of January 4, 2007, Hill was murdered by a random intruder in her New Orleans home. Her death (which was one of six murders in New Orleans that day), coupled with the murder a week before of well-known New Orleans musician Dinerral Shavers, sparked widespread civic outrage in New Orleans, and inspired thousands to march against the rampant and continuing post-Katrina violence in N...

Best known work

Scratch and Crow
Scratch and Crow
1995
Mouseholes
Mouseholes
1999
Vessel
Vessel
1992
Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century
Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century
2001
Cleveland Street Gap
Cleveland Street Gap
I Love Nola
I Love Nola
1998
Five Spells
Five Spells
Film for Rosie
Film for Rosie
2000
The Tunnel of Love
The Tunnel of Love
1996
Rain Dance
Rain Dance
1990

Filmography

  1. TBA

    Cleveland Street Gap

    Director

  2. TBA

    Five Spells

    Director

  3. 2011

  4. 2004

  5. 2001

  6. 2000

  7. 2000

  8. 1999

  9. 1999

    Mouseholes

    Director

  10. 1998

    I Love Nola

    Director

  11. 1996

  12. 1995

  13. 1995

  14. 1992

    Vessel

    Director

  15. 1990

    Rain Dance

    Director

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