Ami Canaan Mann

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1969-01-01 (55 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

Ami Canaan Mann

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2024
Audrey's Children

as Director

2019
Looking for Alaska

as Director

2019
Deadly Class

as Director

2018
2018
2017
Marvel's Runaways

as Director

2017
Shots Fired

as Director

2016
No Tomorrow

as Director

2015
Chicago Med

as Director

2015
Sneaky Pete

as Director

2014
Jackie & Ryan

as Director

2014
Power

as Director

2013
The Blacklist

as Director

2012
Dakota

as Director

2011
2006
1995
Heat

as Second Unit Director

Writer

2014
Jackie & Ryan

as Writer

2012
Dakota

as Writer

2002
Nancy Drew

as Writer

Producer

2014
Jackie & Ryan

as Producer

Actor