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Jana Gillis
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…
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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.
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2026
Doggy-Dog World
Movie First Assistant Director
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2026
Purgatory
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2026
Bad News Go To Therapy
Movie Director
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2023
Everything Christmas
Movie Julia
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2023
The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2022
Astrid & Lilly Save the World
TV show Memoragatu
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2019
Hudson & Rex
TV show Deepfake woman #1
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2018
Malignant
Movie Caroline
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2017
Shattered Mind's Eye
Movie Mom
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2017
Jacob1234
Movie Assistant Director
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2017
Werewolf
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2017
Away from Everywhere
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2017
Waiting Outside
Movie First Assistant Director
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2016
Boundaries
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2016
Crocuses
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2016
Up Close & Personal
Movie Director
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2016
Skip
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2016
Touch
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2016
Maudie
Movie Assistant Director Trainee
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2016
Keystone
Movie Location Production Assistant
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2016
Ida Here and There
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2015
Still Standing
TV show Production Artist
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2015
Dennis
Movie Production Assistant
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2015
Catherine Adelaide
Movie Producer
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2015
Connecting
Movie First Assistant Director
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2015
BreakIn(g)
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2014
Cast No Shadow
Movie Assistant Property Master
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2014
Boarding
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2014
Before the War
Movie Second Assistant Director
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2014
Between Two Walls
Movie Third Assistant Director
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2013
Kindling
Movie Script Supervisor
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2013
Infanticide!
Movie Production Assistant
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2013
The Slattery Street Crockers
TV show Production Assistant
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2013
The Passenger
Movie Script Supervisor
