Squirrel Wars

Directed By Jill Morley

Squirrel Wars: In 2020, a New York artist's obsession makes her the leader of a squirrel war on Facebook. The pressure cooker of quarantine mixed with the polarization of politics intensifies the ire of squirrel lovers everywhere.

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Squirrel Wars: In 2020, a New York artist's obsession makes her the leader of a squirrel war on Facebook. The pressure cooker of quarantine mixed with the polarization of politics intensifies the ire of squirrel lovers everywhere.

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.

Best Documentary Short at Hamilton Film Festival

"What if the most politically incisive cultural artifact of 2020 turns out to be a 9-minute documentary about cute squirrels and the online communities devoted to them?"
Aspen Times