About
Director Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer/director and fiction writer. Her most recent film, ‘Audrey’s Children’, set in 1969 Philadelphia and starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, will be released in 2024.
Her feature film ‘Texas Killing Fields’ (Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz) was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, her feature ‘Jackie and Ryan’ (Ben Barnes, Katherine Heigl) was nominated for the Orizzonti at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, and her debut feature ‘Morning’ won several festival awards including Best Directorial Debut/Rhode Island International Film Festival, Grand Jury Award/River Run International Film Festival and Gold Award for Best Feature First Feature/WorldFest Houston Film Festival.
Ami has directed such television as ‘House of Cards’, ‘Shots Fired’ and ‘Sneaky Pete’. Her episode of ‘Friday Night Lights’, ‘I Can’t’, received a Television Academy Honors Award for ‘Television with a Conscience’. Her pilot episode block of the 2022 Netflix series ‘In From the Cold’ reached Netflix’s Top 10 in the US and internationally.
Ami attended the USC School of Cinema/Television’s Production Program, is a July ’22 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has written and directed professionally for over twenty years. She writes fiction under the name Rae Canaan and divides her time between Los Angeles and an island in the Pacific Northwest.
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MARK ROSS
Paradigm Talent Agency — FeaturesJENNIFER GOOD & BILL DOUGLASS
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Dawn Saltzman
Mosaic Media
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