Gill Holland

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John Gill Holland Jr. (born November 7, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and film producer. He is the co-developer of The Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2016 and 2017, Holland was voted Best Entrepreneur in Louisville's LeoWeekly Readers’ Choice Awards.[1][2] In 2017, Louisville Business First honored him with the Excellence in Leadership Award for his successful NuLu redevelopment and current efforts in the Portland neighborhood.[3]

Early life and education

Holland was born in

Morehead Scholar and graduated from the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1987) (J.D., 1991).[5] He spent his junior year at Paul Valéry University of Montpellier and one semester of law school with Pace University at University College London
.

Career

Film production

Holland owns The Group Entertainment, which includes a film production company, talent management division, a music company and an art gallery, The Green Building Gallery.

Emmy), the Gotham Awards nominee Spring Forward, FLOW: For Love of Water, which was short-listed for an Academy Award,[4] and 2017 SXSW winner Most Beautiful Island.[7] Holland was an important part of the promotion strategy for Desert Blue (1998), a movie he produced. Samuel Goldwyn, the film's distributor, placed an ad in New York City newspapers that read simply: "If you know Gill Holland, see this movie."

He has served on many film festival panels and juries, including 1999

Academy Awards
, Student Division (2002 and 2003).

Earlier in his career, Holland founded cineBLAST!, which The Hollywood Reporter in 1999 and 2000 named one of the top ten production companies in New York City[8] before he sold the company in 2000 at the height of the tech boom.[5] Prior to that, that he worked for three years at Unifrance after a brief stint at October Films.[9]

Record label

Holland is also the founder of

gold status and received critical acclaim in Ireland and the USA. He has also worked with Jack Harlow on his first EP, whose single "What's Poppin" went to the number two spot on the Billboard Charts. The company moved with Holland to Louisville in 2006.[11]

Louisville development

Together with his wife, Augusta Brown Holland, Holland developed

Louisville Magazine named Gill its 2009 Person of the Year.[17]

He has been dubbed the "Mayor of NuLu", by Louisville magazine NFocus, after all of his efforts in the East Market District, where he has also been president of NuLu Business Association for the past 4 years. In 2013, he turned his attention to the historic Portland neighborhood in West Louisville and is and working on rehabilitating historic shotgun houses, in addition to developing several mixed-use spaces.

Other ventures

Holland is a minority owner of the Forecastle Festival, Louisville City FC,[18] and the famed music recording studio La La Land.

Past and present board and commission service includes Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville Film Society, Fund for the Arts, Speed Art Museum, Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Louisville Public Media, Kentucky Film Commission, KY Governor's School for the Arts Advisory Council, International Bluegrass Music Museum, the Americana Center, and the Muhammad Ali Center.

Politics

Holland ran unsuccessfully for Louisville Metro Council in 2016. He also ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky with running mate Adam Edelen in the Kentucky gubernatorial election in 2019.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "The winners of the 2017 Readers' Choice Awards - LEO Weekly". LEO Weekly. October 4, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "The winners of the 2016 Readers' Choice Awards - LEO Weekly". LEO Weekly. October 4, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "Business First's 2017 Excellence in Leadership award winner is ..." www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "Gill Holland's hurricane of success". Norway.org. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d e Boyd, Terry (December 17, 2007). "Unreality of his reality: Holland's role as producer doesn't conform to ideas of 'business'". Louisville Business First. Bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  6. ^ Green is growing (March 14, 2008). "Sustainable Design and Architecture | US Green Building Council | Solar Panels". The Green Building. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  7. ^ "Gill Holland-produced film 'Most Beautiful Island' wins top award at SXSW - Insider Louisville". Insider Louisville. March 16, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  8. ^ Rafferty, Diane (March 11, 1996). "The Talk of the Town: Brothers From Another Planet". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Toni Schlesinger (June 30, 1998). "Reel Life – Page 1 – News – New York". Village Voice. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  10. ^ a b J. Christian Walsh (October 13, 2010). "Dining Guide 2010: For Gill Holland, it's all about the Mayan Café | Louisville's Alt-Weekly". LEO Weekly. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  11. ^ a b "Music Issue 2007: That sound you hear is innovation (pt 5) | Louisville's Alt-Weekly". LEO Weekly. July 24, 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  12. ^ Howard, Hilary (September 9, 2008). "Louisville Neighborhood Becomes an Arts Area". The New York Times.
  13. ^ a b "Lunch With...Gill Holland". Courier-Journal. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  14. ^ "In Louisville, New Life Fills Old Facades". The New York Times. July 10, 2011.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g "TEDxUofL". TEDxUofL. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  16. ^ "Louisville Life – Program 516". KET. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  17. ^ "The Green Building | Sustainable Design and Architecture | US Green Building Council | Solar Panels". www.thegreenbuilding.net. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  18. ^ "Get Access". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  19. ^ "The Importance of Networking | The Independent". Independent-magazine.org. May 1, 2004. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  20. ^ a b c Boyd, Terry (January 23, 2011). "Insider Q&A: Gill Holland's insider take on Sundance, the movie biz and what Robert Redford is really like". Insider Louisville. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.

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