Ami Canaan Mann

Director Ami Canaan Mann is an awardwinning TV and film writerdirector and fiction writer Her most recent film Audreys 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 DebutRhode Island International Film Festival Grand Jury AwardRiver Run International Film Festival and Gold Award for Best Feature First FeatureWorldFest Houston Film Festival Ami has directed television such as House of Cards Shots Fired and Sneaky Pete Her episode of Friday Night Lights I Cant 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 Netflixs Top 10 in the US and internationally Ami attended the USC School of CinemaTelevisions 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