Producing At the time of her death, Jo Gilbert was in pre-production with the movie
The Ribbon with
Ed Burns and starring
Julia Stiles, and was producing the 40-part documentary series
Great West End Theatres for
Great Productions. In their review of the series, the
British Theatre Guide said "This film is as close as one can get to standing on the stage taking an ovation. This series is beautifully filmed and gets the balance exactly right between classy camera work, history, reminiscence and gossip." She produced the film
Closing the Ring, the last film directed by
Richard Attenborough, which was shot in and around
Belfast and released in 2007. Her previous film credits as associate producer are
Puckoon (2002), directed by
Terence Ryan;
Darkness Falls (1999) directed by
Gerry Lively;
The Brylcreem Boys (1998) directed and produced by
Terence Ryan and
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993). She was also instrumental in originally creating the
Paint Hall Film Studios in Belfast, now known as the
Titanic Studios, in the
Titanic Quarter, Belfast.
Casting Director As Casting Director, her credits included
The Jungle Book 2 (2003);
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) and
The Harpist (1997). As a casting director working on the 1997 film
The Brylcreem Boys for the Producer/Director
Terence Ryan, they were the first film to choose the
Isle of Man as a location since the 1936 film
No Limit starring
George Formby. Ryan based his movie there and used various locations on the island to stand-in for Ireland. Gilbert appeared in a 2003 episode of the UK serialised
fly on the wall documentary
Airline, having missed an
EasyJet flight to Belfast in which she attempted to use her vocation as a method of intimidating and bullying airport staff. On 15 September 2018, she died of a brain tumour. == References ==