Jeanie Miller
Filmmaker | Truth Excavator | Voice for the Unheard
The Manifesto
I don’t make films to entertain you. I make films to confront you.
I don’t write villains, I write human beings with peeling masks.
We all lie. We all cheat. We all fantasize about running.
The only thing separating us from the monsters is manners, and fear of being caught.My stories live in the silence before the scream.
In the room where a woman offers a puzzle and no one looks up.
In the boys of New Mexico, forgotten and written off by age 14.
In glass boxes, filled with precious things.I’m not here to wrap stories in bows. I’m here to unravel them.
To take your empathy hostage. To show you your own reflection, and wait.This is not comfort cinema. This is a scalpel.
The Work
The Wig - A costume, that haunts for an eternity. (On the festival circuit)
The Cat House Chronicles - Senior cats, and one youngster that stirs the pot. (On the festival circuit)
She’s Over It - A quiet implosion. A viral scream. A mother lost in plain sight. (On the festival circuit)
Zookenee Beds - An inherited pig farm and wishes from her deceased mother to find love leads to a series of horrible dates, and the aftermath has to be dealt with...somehow. (48 Hour Film Project)
The Forgotten Files - Sacrifice is tradition. Silence is complicity. A girl returns to die on her own terms. (Interactive Multimedia - New pieces published weekly. Click link above)
Boys Like That - A special education teacher, with a horse trainer's intuition, forms an unlikely connection with an explosive, emotionally volatile middle school boy on the edge of expulsion, discovering that behavior is never the problem; it's the message.(Pre-production)
In Her Wake - Guilt is absent. The only fear is being caught. (Pre-production)
Antique Death - A woman shops for antiques and finds her own grave. (Pre-production)
Trailers
© Jeanie Miller – Stories That Shouldn’t Be Told, But Are