about me
Jill Sachs is a mixed Filipina-American writer-director, passionate about using genre to challenge oppressive narratives and amplify voices too often overlooked. She is a 2025 grantee of the CAPE Julia Gouw Short Film Award for her folk-horror short Taga, shot in the Philippines in January 2025. Her script for Taga won 2nd place in the 2024 Screencraft Short competition and received the Silver Award for Best Short Screenplay at FilmQuest. Jill earned her MFA in Directing from AFI and was a 2023 finalist for both the Disney-AFI Underrepresented Storytellers Initiative and the CAPE Julia Gouw Short Film Award. Her films and music videos have won awards and screened at festivals including HollyShorts, Hawai‘i International Film Festival, BendFilm, Cinequest, SLO, and FilmQuest.
When she isn’t behind the camera, Jill can often be found backpacking, wandering through art museums, or chasing the uncanny—always searching for the strange and the sublime that spark her stories.