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Ami Canaan Mann (b. 1969)

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Birthplace:
London, England, UK

Born:
January 1, 1969

Biography from TheMovieDB

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 television such 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 divides her time between Los Angeles and an island in the Pacific Northwest.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
2011  Texas Killing Fields
2012  Dakota
2014  Jackie & Ryan
????  Audrey's Children

Producer:
2011  Texas Killing Fields
2012  Dakota
2014  Jackie & Ryan
????  Audrey's Children

Second Unit Director:
1995  Heat
2011  Texas Killing Fields
2012  Dakota
2014  Jackie & Ryan
????  Audrey's Children

Writer:
1995  Heat
2002  Nancy Drew
2011  Texas Killing Fields
2012  Dakota
2014  Jackie & Ryan
????  Audrey's Children

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TV Production

Director:
2002  Robbery Homicide Division
2006  Friday Night Lights
2013  The Blacklist
2014  Power
2015  Chicago Med
2015  Sneaky Pete
2016  No Tomorrow
2017  Marvel's Runaways
2017  Shots Fired
2018  A Million Little Things
2018  Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
2019  Deadly Class
2019  Looking for Alaska

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