Jill Worsley is a multi-award winning and twice BAFTA nominated film maker. With a career spanning 20 years in the industry, she has directed and scripted a wide range of documentary & drama doc programmes for BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Whatever the genre, she strives to make films with humour and pathos.

In 2019 she was BAFTA nominated for feature documentary ‘School For Stammerers’. The press described it as ‘a remarkable documentary, told simply and respectfully’, and ‘an emotional journey – there are tears all round. Practically drama’. She also directed the first two series of Paul O’Grady’s: For the Love of Dogs, developing the style and tone that won it millions of loyal fans, multiple awards and a BAFTA nomination.

During Covid lockdown, Jill entered a BBC Writersroom opportunity to script a short film to be filmed entirely on Zoom. Of 6800 scripts entered, ‘Fred Gets Feedback’ was one of 8 chosen to be made, and it was the first fiction script she’d written. It went on to win a Rose D’Or for Best Multiplatform. She has now written and directed multiple shorts. Choked Up, a social satire starring Maxine Peake, screened at multiple BAFTA & BIFA qualifying film festivals including Aesthetica, Norwich and LOCO. Horror comedy ARM premiered at Frightfest, played at multiple festivals and won her Best Director at the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival.

Jill is currently developing two feature scripts and a comedy drama series, and completing her latest short film, which definitely isn’t the grief catharsis film that every writer has to write at some point in their career.