Director Jill Carter splits her time between Toronto and Los Angeles. Always creative, she studied Fashion Design before moving into film and tv. Jill is a curious, open minded, collaborator with a keen interest in travel. She is passionate about music, photography, literature and art. Using the craft of visual storytelling Jill is interested in uniting people of all ages through thoughtful universal experiences.
Carter has directed, co-written and produced several successful short films that have screened at festivals around the world, including MOMENT and LITTLE LARRY which was nominated for a Directors Guild of Canada Award.
Since then she has gone on to direct episodes of such television shows as the CW’s BEAUTY & THE BEAST, CBC’s MURDOCH MYSTERIES, Global’s PRIVATE EYES and BET’s IN CONTEMPT. SPIRAL, a web-series Jill directed was nominated for 5 Vancouver Web Fest awards, including best drama. She has also directed several MOW’s including the charming Lifetime film CHRISTMAS 9 TO 5 staring Tiya Sicar, Sheila McCarthy, Joe Dinicol and George Wendt.
Recently Jill directed her first pilot episode and half the season of the CityTV’s cop drama THE MURDERS starring Jessica Lucas (Gotham), Dylan Bruce (Midnight Texas) and Terry Chen (Jessica Jones).
She is an alum of the prestigious TIFF STUDIO, an incubator program run by the Toronto International Film Festival. Jill currently has a number of film and television projects in various stages of development and holds an O1 visa along with British and Canadian passports.