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Jenny McQuaile
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Disability Rights, LGBTQIA+, Child Welfare, Education, Women and Girls, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Educational materials, Impact Producing, Consulting, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Campaign Implementation, Designing impact guides, Alternative Distribution
- Cultural/racial identity:
- White
- Self identification:
- Female
Bio
Jenny McQuaile is a journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her latest feature film Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image premiered on EPIX. The documentary was selected by the State Department to represent the United States at embassies around the world as part of the American Film Showcase program. Jenny was also an Associate Producer on The World Cup Project, a TV documentary series about 11 countries around the world that use soccer for social change. She directed three episodes of the series. Jenny has appeared on Good Morning America and The Today Show, as well as being interviewed in Vogue Magazine, Well + Good, Huffington Post, People Magazine, Glamour Magazine and Women and Hollywood, amongst many others. During her time as a journalist Jenny worked for the Irish Daily Mirror, the Daily Mirror in London and the Daily Mail and freelanced for Condé Nast, Hearst and other large media companies. Jenny started Impact Producing for her own feature Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image and has since worked with award-winning production company Salty Features, The Atlantic's white supremacy documentary White Noise, PBS film Hearts of Glass in which cutting edge food production meets communities with disabilities, NY Times Critic’s Pick Invisible Hands, which exposes child labor and trafficking within supply chains of the world’s biggest companies and documentary feature film Port of Destiny: Peace about Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos, Independent Lens series CareforceOne Travelogues and the Medical Professionalism Project.
