jillian

winters

author, screenwriter, & filmmaker

creating unsettling character-driven stories exploring femininity, existential alienation, and dread…

stories where emotional truths take physical form. where obsession, loneliness, desire, and power turn tangible, even grotesque.

bio

Jillian is an LA-based storyteller. She holds her MFA in Screenwriting from the David Lynch School of Cinematic Arts, after earning her BFA from USC’s film school.

Jillian moves freely between absurdity and horror, the surreal and the grounded, the intimate and the expansive.

Her road horror feature BACKDOOR was a 2025 Stage 32 Female Driven Screenplay finalist. THE NIGHT BELL won first place at the Renegade/Women in Horror Film Festival and will be published as a graphic novel in 2027.

For her, storytelling isn’t about staying entirely in one lane. It’s about following fear and curiosity.