Filmmaker

Jan Selby
Director, Producer

Jan is a multiple EMMY© award winning producer, director, and founder of Quiet Island Films, a full-service video production company. Her first film as director/producer, A Circle and Three Lines (2009), explains the history of the peace symbol. It premiered at the Big Sky Documentary film festival (MT) in 2010. Jan won the “Emerging Filmmaker Award” at the Minnesota History Center’s “1968 Project” Film Festival and the film earned first place in the international documentary film category at the Sundial Film Festival (CA).  Screening highlights include the Heart  of Gold Film Festival (Australia), the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (CA), the Peace on Earth Film Festival (IL), the Global Peace Film Festival (FL), and the Woodstock Film Festival (NY). Jan was honored to receive a regional EMMY© for A Circle and Three Lines.

In college, Jan aspired to being a filmmaker, yet ended up pursuing a “more practical” career in marketing, working in corporate environments and as an independent consultant for clients worldwide such as Apple Computer and Boston Scientific.

Jan has produced numerous documentaries for corporate (e.g., Best Buy, Blue Cross Blue Shield MN) and nonprofit clients (Cabrini Partnership, Hamline University), as well as the feature-length documentary FRITZ: The Walter Mondale Story. FRITZ has screened at the Women with Vision 2010 International Film Festival (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), George Washington University (Washington, D.C.), the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of MN), and has been broadcast on numerous PBS stations.

Jan is a member of IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, Minnesota Women in Film and Television, The D-Word, and Minnesota Women in Marketing and Communications.