Writer-Director Reel

Jeannie Donohoe is an award-winning filmmaker and recent fellow in the 2019-2021 Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. In 2020, she was selected to write and direct a short film for Steph Curry and Storm Reid’s Under Armour “B-amazing” Curry 7 sneaker release. Jeannie has written and directed several short films, including GAME (10M+ online views, screening in over 250 festivals and recipient of 80+ awards internationally, including two Oscar-qualifying awards at Raindance and NYICFF, a Cannes Bronze Lion, Vimeo Staff Pick), Lambing Season (selected for over 50 film festivals; Aspen Shortsfest winner, named one of the “Best Short Films of 2014” by Indiewire; currently airing on PBS Film School Shorts) and Public (Palm Springs ShortFest, PBS Imagemakers). Jeannie was selected from over 4,600 applicants to write and direct GAME through the Lexus Short Films program. She earned her MFA with honors in Directing from Columbia University, where she was awarded the HBO Young Filmmakers Development Award and numerous teaching fellowships, including a TA position for film critic Andrew Sarris. She attended Dartmouth College as an undergraduate and later earned an MS in Education while teaching middle school in the Bronx through the Teach for America program. Jeannie is currently producing an HBO-funded documentary and developing her first feature-length film.