Jodi Cilley is a long time filmmaker, entrepreneur and educator. She has over 13 years of experience teaching video production at San Diego City College, UC San Diego Extension's Digital Arts Center, Platt College and the Media Arts Center San Diego. She has led students in the production of over 40 short documentaries, 30 short films, and a variety of PSA's, commercials, live event videos and music videos. She has produced over a hundred of her own projects including short films, documentaries and commercial projects and is producing Film Indiego, a 6-Part TV Series for KPBS and PBS SoCal, and has helped manage the KPBS Explore program which provides seed funding and development support for local nonfiction programming about the San Diego region. She has a BS in Sociology from Boston College and an MBA with specializations in entrepreneurship and management from San Diego State University. As a founder and current president of the Film Consortium San Diego and the producer of the annual San Diego Film Awards and San Diego Film Week, she is working to build a strong local film industry and to increase exhibition, distribution, funding and employment opportunities for local up and coming film talent.
