{"id":39576,"date":"2026-07-13T05:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=ami-canaan-mann"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:19:42","slug":"ami-canaan-mann","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=ami-canaan-mann","title":{"rendered":"Ami Canaan Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer\/director and fiction writer. Her most recent film, \u2018Audrey\u2019s Children\u2019, set in 1969 Philadelphia and starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, will be released in 2024. Her feature film \u2018Texas Killing Fields\u2019 (Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz) was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, her feature \u2018Jackie and Ryan\u2019 (Ben Barnes, Katherine Heigl) was nominated for the Orizzonti at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, and her debut feature \u2018Morning\u2019 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 \u2018House of Cards\u2019, \u2018Shots Fired\u2019 and \u2018Sneaky Pete\u2019. Her episode of \u2018Friday Night Lights\u2019, \u2018I Can\u2019t\u2019, received a Television Academy Honors Award for \u2018Television with a Conscience\u2019. Her pilot episode block of the 2022 Netflix series \u2018In From the Cold\u2019 reached Netflix\u2019s Top 10 in the US and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Ami attended the USC School of Cinema\/Television\u2019s Production Program, is a July \u201922 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer\/director and fiction writer. Her most recent film, \u2018Audrey\u2019s Children\u2019, set in 1969 Philadelphia and starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, will be released in 2024. 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