Jill Morley

Jill is an award-winning screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker who focuses on gritty, character-driven material and exposing the truth in a compelling, unexpected way. Her screenplay, "See Jane FIght" made the Women's List as one of the best unproduced screenplays written by women. She has received fellowships to Hedgebrook and the Middlebury Screenwriting Lab. Jill's screenplays have been finalists for the Writer's Lab, Stowe Story Lab, Athena Lab, and have won or been finalists in several competitions.


Her award-winning feature doc, “Fight Like a Girl,” played several festivals and won a special award from the World Boxing Council. Her doc short "Squirrel Wars" sold to Journeyman Features, and Jill's first feature "Stripped" ran theatrically in New York and LA, sold internationally, and ran on the Sundance Channel. Other films played festivals such as Hot Docs, Newport Beach FF, Aspen FF, AFI, Santa Barbara Film Festival, The Sebastopol Documentary FF, and many others. Morley wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play, "True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl," which was published in “The Best Women’s Plays of 1998,” ran Off Broadway for several years, and was performed across the country, including San Francisco’s “Solo Mio Fest.


"True Confessions" will be produced at the Triad Theater in New York in the fall of 2026.

Format: Unscripted Features

Genre: Crime, Documentary, Comedy, Women

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

Best Documentary at Hamilton Film Festival 2021

Best Documentary at Other Venice Film Festival 2013

Best Documentary at Artemis Film Festival 2013

Award for Inspiration from the World Boxing Council 2012

Best Original Screenplay 2022 from the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival