Biography

Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer/director and fiction writer. Her most recent film, Audrey's Children (2024), set in 1969 Philadelphia and starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans, will be released in 2024 (Best Feature, Tribeca X Film Festival 2024). Her feature film Texas Killing Fields (2011) ( Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz ) was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, her feature Jackie & Ryan (2014) ( 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's pilot episode block of the 2022 Netflix series In from the Cold (2022) reached Netflix's Top 10 in the US and internationally. She has directed television such as House of Cards (2013), Shots Fired (2017) and Sneaky Pete (2015), and her episode of Friday Night Lights (2006), "I Can't", received a Television Academy Honors Award for Television with a Conscience. 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.