Annie Bradley brings her experience and knowledge to the Television Structure portion of the 2010 LAB: 2 Program.
An award winning director and Sundance Alumna, Annie Bradley’s passionate vision always paints a compelling story. She has directed over 60 short films, music videos, commercials, and multiple episodes of television. Chosen for the 2009 TIFF Talent Lab, the CFC 2008 Short Dramatic Film Program, and the 2007 Directors' Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. she is also the recipient of the 2005 Wallace Studios WIDC Alumnae Award, a 2004 Kodak New Vision Award, and attended the 2003 Women in the Director's Chair program.
Annie's television credits include multiple episodes of A&E’s Urban Legends and Psychic Investigators, Canwest Global’s Cold Blood and Discovery Channel's World's Greenest Homes. Her latest dramatic short film Pudge, which premiered at TIFF, has screened at over 30 festivals on the international circuit, and sold to Cinefil Imagica (Japan), Movieola, Canwest, Astral and the CBC, with pending sales in Taiwan and Australia. Multiple nominations have resulted in a Platinum Remi at the 2009 Worldfest in Houston, Actress - Best Performance in a Short Film at the 30th Annual Young Artists' Awards in Los Angeles, and Pudge is currently nominated for Best Feature/Short at the Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival to be presented in April 2010.
Her multiple award winning film, Tongue Bully, featuring two time Dora Award winner Learie E. A. McNicolls, was shot in Havana, Cuba, screened at over 30 festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, and opened the Dance on Camera Film Festival at the Lincoln Centre in NYC. Garnering the Most Creative Short at the Fear No Film Festival, the Jury Award of Distinction at the American Dance Festival, and a Grand Prize of Cinematography from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. It was featured in American Cinematographer, sold to Atom Films at Sundance, and has aired internationally.
Currently Annie is finishing up her TIFF Talent Lab-RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition short while developing multiple feature and television projects through her company The Heat Mansion with writing partner Thomas Care. They include Handicap and The Astronomy of Self, which is set in Buenos Aires.