Sarah Polley

She has been writing and directing in Canada since 1999 when she made her directorial debut with short films. She wrote, directed and produced, Don’t Think Twice, starring Tom McCamus and Jennifer Podemski and then The Best Day of My Life. In 2001, she wrote, directed and co­‐produced, I Shout Love, starring Kristen Thomson, who won an Actra Award for her performance in the short. The film also won a 2003 Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama. In 2002, Sarah wrote and directed The Harp, one of the episodes of “The Shields Stories” for television.

In 2007, Sarah wrote and directed Away From Her, starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, and Olympia Dukakis, adapted from the Alice Munro short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” In addition to two Academy Award® nominations (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress), Away From Her garnered a long list of awards including the London Critics Circle Film Award (British Actress of the Year), Los Angeles Film Critics Association (New Generations Award), National Board of Review (Best Actress), National Society of Film Critics (Best Actress), New York Film Critics Circle (Best First Film, Best Actress), Online Film Critics Society (Breakthrough Filmmaker, Best Actress. Additionally, Away From Her earned a Chlotrudis Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, SAG Award (Best Actress), Golden Globe (Best Actress), seven Genie Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Directors Guild of Canada (Best Feature Film, Best Direction) and Best Feature Film from the Writers Guild of Canada.

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