Director Ami Canaan Mann brings us the incredible story of Dr. Audrey Evans in Audrey’s Children.
Audrey’s Children tells the untold true story of visionary British physician Dr. Audrey Evans, who burst onto the scene in 1969 as the first female Chief of Oncology at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Battling sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers, Evans developed the first Neuroblastoma Staging System, co-founded the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients, and, ultimately, impacted the lives of millions of children and families around the world. This astonishingly determined woman refused to take ‘no’ for an answer, and her tenacity changed the world.
Directed by Ami and written by Julia Fisher Farbman, the film stars Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones,” The Wasp), Jimmi Simpson (Dark Matter), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), and Brandon Micheal Hall (“Search Party”).
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All About Ami:
Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer/director and publishes short fiction under the name Rae Canaan. Her most recent film, Audrey’s Children, has won awards at Philadelphia Film Festival, TribecaX and Stony Brook Film Festival. 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’s pilot episode block of the 2022 Netflix series “In From the Cold” reached Netflix’s Top 10 in the US and internationally. She has directed television such as House of Cards, Shots Fired and Sneaky Pete, and her episode of Friday Night Lights, “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 ’22 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has written and directed professionally for over twenty years
