Gilly Barnes is an Emmy award winning commercial and narrative director known for capturing offbeat characters, and bringing real world verisimilitude into the advertising space. Her first short film, HEY SPIRIT -an expressionistic documentary about cheerleading-screened at The Telluride Film Festival and was acquired by IFC. She’s been mining the territory of female cliches ever since, for a more complete look at how women show up in the world. Other projects include a short film featuring tap dancing suffragists and Gaby Hoffman that was created for Vanity Fair’s centennial issue, a comedy about actors auditioning for a men’s hair loss commercial, a day in the life of a singing telegram performer for Refinery29/MAX, a film about a queer girl’s crush in support of Focus Features KAJILLIONAIRE film release, and a short documentary about the history of glitter. She is thrilled to be working with the Proof of Concept program on her first television series, THE SEARCH FOR MAGIC.