Award winning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Sheila Jordan is successfully turning her hand to screen drama. Her new script "Kathleen's Closet" won on of five National Screen Institute's 2004 drama prizes. The prize includes training, in-kind services and partial production funding.

Jordan's winning script, written in her studio on Pender Island, is the story of an elderly women's last night and the young nurse who helps her leave with dignity and grace. The film will be shot in the fall of 2004 and will air on CBC in 2005.

Jordan's documentary credits include: the TV show Aboriginal Voices, the documentary "No Surrender", and teaching at the Galiano Island Film and Television School (GIFTS). "No Surrender", nominated for best documentay at the Sichuan Film Festival, aired on the Discovery Channel in 1996.