Gill Holland

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John Gill Holland, Jr. (born November 7, 1964), better known as Gill Holland, is a Norwegian-American award winning film producer and co-developer of The Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky.

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[edit] Background

Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Holland was raised in Davidson, NC. Holland's father was born in Lynch, Kentucky and grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia. His mother was born in Norway. Holland graduated from The Episcopal High School (Alexandria, VA) in 1983 and went on to be a Morehead Scholar and graduated from the University of North Carolina (B. A. 1987) (Law Degree. 1991). He spent his junior year at Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier, France and one semester of law school with Pace University at University College, London, England.

[edit] Career

Holland owns The Group Entertainment LLC, which includes a movie production company, a music company and an art gallery. Holland has produced more than 70 feature films including Hurricane Streets which was the first film ever to win three Sundance Film Festival awards in 1997 as well as the Cannes Film Festival selection Inside/Out, the Independent Spirit Awards winner Sweet Land and nominee Dear Jesse (also nominated for an Emmy), and the Gotham Awards nominee Spring Forward. He has served on many film festival panels juries, including Sundance Film Festival short film jury and Haugesund Film Festival for the Amanda Awards.

Holland is also the founder of sonaBLAST! Records, an independent record label featuring Ben Sollee, Nerves Junior, Cheyenne Marie Mize, The Old Ceremony, and Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary, whose 2004 release Ghosts featuring backing vocals by Josh Ritter and Glen Hansard is nearing gold status and received critical acclaim in Ireland and the USA.

Louisville Magazine named Gill its 2009 Person of the Year.

Together with his wife, Augusta Brown Holland, Gill Holland developed The Green Building. This renovation of a historic building opened in the Fall of 2008 in NuLu aka the East Market District, the heart of Louisville's arts district. It provides offices for SonaBLAST! Records, Holland Brown Books and The Group Entertainment. They then went on to landmark and develop almost a block of neighboring historic buildings. He is the author of two fund-raising art books for children, "Louisville Counts" and "L is for Louisville."

He has been dubbed the "Mayor of NuLu", by a Louisville magazine NFocus, after all of his efforts towards the East Market Disctrict.

[edit] Green Efforts and the NuLu District

Gill Holland has become a major player in the green movement in Kentucky. His biggest achievement would be The Green Building (Louisville, Kentucky). The building has become a staple of the movement in the NuLu district. His goal with this district, is to create a locally run area that showcases local restaurants, locally grown food and buildings that use sustainable resources. The project nearest to his heart is the creation of the Jefferson Farmers Market, this contains locally grown produce and sits across the street from The Green Building (Louisville, Kentucky). Holland was quoted by The Lane Report saying “There’s a saying that the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone,” he said. “The coal age is not going to end because we run out of coal. I’m all about incentivizing people to change, (but) not mandating it or telling them (they have) to do it.” about the green movement. The Green Building (Louisville, Kentucky), was only step one. Now Holland, who is the poster child for the green movement in Kentucky, has more plans to make Kentucky a green state as well. He was instrumental in helping Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer hire its first Director of Sustainability.

[edit] Selected filmography

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