gillian müller

Gillian Müller attended Ryerson’s Film Studies Program, Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television, and Second City's Sketch Writing and Improv program. She spent the better part of a decade as an Assistant Director with the DGC. Gillian draws on her multi-ethnic West Indian family and her intimate knowledge of production to create character-driven content for film, television and digital platforms. 

Gillian was a 2014 resident of the Canadian Film Centre's Primetime program under the showrunner Brad Wright (“Stargate”) Gillian developed “Travelers” (Netflix) and wrote Episode 2: ‘Protocol 6’, she currently writes for “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum” for PBS and “Endlings” for Hulu. Gillian has worked in the writer’s rooms of “X Company” and “Cavendish”, as well as several development rooms.

Gillian co-directed the webseries "Night Owl" (SXSW 2018) and the BravoFact "Checking Out”, she co-produced Super Zee (WIFF 2019, OutlantaCon 2020, OutFest 2020) with an all P.O.C. crew.

In 2018, Gillian was selected for Muslim Public Affairs Council: Hollywood Bureau's Drama TV Writer’s Lab; sponsored by the Emmy nominated Wise Entertainment. She is December 2018's Writer’s Guild of Canada Diverse Script of the Month for her police procedural "The Blue Division" and was selected by Ben Watkins (“Burn Notice”, “Hand of God”) as one of his Toronto Screenwriting Conference's Breakthrough Artists for 2019.

Her feature script, "Hitchhiking in Saldanha", was shortlisted in the Praxis Screenplay Competition in 2013 and the ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition in 2014.   Her pilot script for “The Player’s Son” is currently in the Top 100 on The Launch Pad. Her feature “The Favorite Wife” made the second round of the Austin Film Festival. Her pilot “Spinsters!” is on the We For She 2020 list of best unproduced female centred screenplays.

Gillian is a former senior committee member of the BIPOC TV & Film Visioning Committee and the Black Women Film! Advisory Board and the activist behind the Petition supporting the WGC’s addition of the Story Coordinators position into their Guild. So don’t tell her the people don’t have the power.