Ami Canaan Mann

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, starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans has won awards at Philadelphia Film Festival, TribecaX and Stony Brook Film Festival, and is in theaters now. Her feature films Texas Killing Fields and Jackie and Ryan were nominated at the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion and Orizzonti, respectively. Ami attended the USC School of Cinema / Television production program, is a 2022 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has written and directed professionally for more than 20 years.

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The Lens is Never Neutral: How to Shoot a Crime Scene

By Ami Canaan Mann | March 28, 2025

The Lens is Never Neutral: How to Shoot a Crime Scene

Ami Canaan Mann, whose new film Audrey’s Children is out now, looks back on her time researching her 2011 film Texas Killing Fields.