Ami Canaan Mann

Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer/director and publishes short fiction under the name Rae Canaan. Her feature films Texas Killing Fields and Jackie and Ryan both were nominated at the 68th and 71st Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion and Orizzonti respectively. Her most recent film, Audrey’s Children, starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans has won awards at the Philadelphia Film Festival, TribecaX, and Stony Brook Film Festival. Ami attended the USC School of Cinema/Television Production Program, is a ’22 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has written and directed professionally for over twenty years.