Greece
Writer / Director / Producer
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to British parents who then moved to Canada, multi-award winning writer/ director Sarah Deakins is a graduate of the University of Victoria theater program, and has extensive stage and screen credits.
The first short film she penned and starred in,”Late”, went to Cannes as part of Telefilm Canada’s “Not Short On Talent” Program, and more recently Deakins has collected over 30 awards on the festival circuit as the writer and director of “Greece”, produced by Brightlight Pictures.
She is the writer/director of the multi award-winning pilot episode, “Yellow”, with Brightlight Pictures, for an anthology series called IN PERSON, currently in development.
Ms. Deakins is also working on a web series called HAPPENSTANCE in Toronto, and developing her first feature film, VIOLET. She makes her home in three main cities, splitting the year between LA, Toronto, and Vancouver.