Gillian Muller

Gillian Müller was raised in Toronto to a big old mix-up West Indian family. She went to Ryerson for film, Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television, and Second City for Writing Sketch, Comedy TV and of course Improv. But it was the decade she spent as an Assistant Director with the Director's Guild of Canada that really gave her an education. With them, she shuffled cast on Bruce McDonald's "Hellions", CBC classic "The Border" and the bread and butter of the Canadian film industry - kid show after kid show after kid show. Before all that her short film, "If a Body" was acquired by MovieolaTV and screened at the New York International Film Festival in the year 2000. Jump to 2013, when Gillian returned to writing professionally, she developed a pilot for Adam Beach's Pipestone Pictures, and was selected by Random Bench to showrun the webseries "Redemption". Her feature script, "Happy Hour in Cambodia", was shortlisted on the Praxis Screenplay Competition in 2013 and was a Semi-Finalist with the ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition in 2014. As a 2014 resident of the Canadian Film Centre's Primetime program, Gillian helped develop "Travelers" (Netflix) and wrote episode two: Protocol 6. Later that year, Gillian assisted Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern on the final season CBC's "X Company", she ALSO and co-directed "Night Owl" and one of the last BravoFacts "Checking Out" which was invited to SXSW 2018. It was a big year. The next year she basically did nothing. In 2018, she co-produced "Super Zee" (Women's International Film Festival 2019) with an all P.O.C. cast and crew. In 2018 she coordinated for CBC's "Cavendish". Her feature "The Favorite Wife" was a 2019 ScreenCraft Fellowship Quarter-Finalist and made the Top 25 at the Save the Cat Screenplay Competition, and is currently in development with Kiss Off Entertainment. Gillian was selected for the Hollywood Bureau division of the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Drama TV Writer's Lab in Santa Monica, sponsored by Emmy-nominated Wise Entertainment. Her script 'Blue Division' was Writer's Guild of Canada: Diverse Script of the Month for November 2018 and she was selected by Ben Watkins (NY Undercover) as one of his Breakthrough Artists for 2019. Gillian also serves on the BIPOC TV & Film visioning committee and the Black Women Film! advisory board.