Known For
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Jana Gillis
Biography
Jana Gillis is a professional skit artist, comedian, and bagpiper from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Her skits have taken many forms over the years. Sometimes as short films (screened at SJIWFF, AIFF, The Nickel, HIFF, TOSketchFest & various Sci-Fi & Fantasy Conventions throughout Atlantic Canada); as plays (St. John’s Short Play Festival, Cape Breton Stage Company) as “sketches” (NL SketchFest, Is This a Bit?, Almost Baymous, The Second City Toronto Sketch Conservatory) and straight up make ‘em ups (St. John’s Improv, Extreme Improv XStreamed, Movie Night Productions). She’s also acted in longform television skits (Hudson & Rex, Son of a Critch, Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Hallmark’s Everything Christmas). Jana studied professional skitcraft and earned a red t-shirt with a chair on it from The Second City Toronto and a BFA in Theatre Acting from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her first short film, “Must Be a Zombie Apocalypse”, produced through the SJIWFF Inaugural FRAMED West filmmaking program screened at SJIWFF, HIFF and several Sci-Fi conventions throughout Atlantic Canada. Her second short, “Up Close & Personal” premiered at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. Her latest short comedy “Multiverse” was produced with the help of ACTRA Toronto’s YEAA Creates program and premiered at the Nickel Independent Film Festival. She likes telling strange stories in bite sized bits.
Known For
Filmography
Doggy-Dog World
First Assistant Director
Purgatory
Second Assistant Director
Bad News Go To Therapy
Director
Everything Christmas
Julia
The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating
Second Assistant Director
Astrid & Lilly Save the World
Memoragatu
Hudson & Rex
Deepfake woman #1
Malignant
Caroline
Shattered Mind's Eye
Mom
Jacob1234
Assistant Director
Werewolf
Second Assistant Director
Away from Everywhere
Third Assistant Director
Waiting Outside
First Assistant Director
Boundaries
Third Assistant Director
Crocuses
Third Assistant Director
Up Close & Personal
Director
Skip
Third Assistant Director
Touch
Third Assistant Director
Maudie
Assistant Director Trainee
Keystone
Location Production Assistant
Ida Here and There
Second Assistant Director
Still Standing
Production Artist
Dennis
Production Assistant
Catherine Adelaide
Producer
BreakIn(g)
Second Assistant Director
Connecting
First Assistant Director
Cast No Shadow
Assistant Property Master
Boarding
Third Assistant Director
Before the War
Second Assistant Director
Between Two Walls
Third Assistant Director
Kindling
Script Supervisor
Infanticide!
Production Assistant
The Slattery Street Crockers
Production Assistant
The Passenger
Script Supervisor