Gill Holland

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

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. An Eagle Scout, 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.

Holland owns The Group Entertainment LLC, which includes a film production company, talent management division, a music company and an art gallery, The Green Building Gallery. In the past, The Group Entertainment also included a talent management company. Holland has produced more than 100 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), the Gotham Awards nominee Spring Forward, FLOW: For Love of Water which was short-listed for an Academy Award, and 2017 SXSW winners The Seer (re-titled Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry) and Most Beautiful Island. He has served on many film festival panels juries, including 1999 Sundance Film Festival short film jury, Norwegian International Film Festival for the Amanda Awards and the Academy Awards, Student Division (2002 and 2003).

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