Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley is Genie Award-winning film director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Away From Her ). As a director, she is renowned internationally as well as in her native Canada. As an actress, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her sensitive portraits of wounded and conflicted young women in independent films. She has starred in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, and Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

She has said that her choice of film roles, eschewing mainstream Hollywood movies for chancier, non-commercial independent fare, was the result of an ethical decision on her part to make films with social importance. Polley is a cinema artist. This woman wants to make, and will make films. Thus, we can understand her career choices as a desire to work with and understand the technique of some of the best directors in film, including David Cronenberg, Michael Winterbottom, and Hal Hartley.