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PRODUCER
DIRECTOR
Gail Harvey
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A director is a visual fiction writer. It’s about telling the story, and connecting with the actors to make something truer than life.
- Gail Harvey
WE'RE ALL IN
THIS TOGETHER
In Consideration for the Canadian Screen Awards
ABOUT GAIL
Gail Harvey is a multi award-winning television and film director and producer. Her background is in photography and she branded out to film after an illustrious career as photojournalist and stills photographer. As a film director, she was mentored by Norman Jewison, Wim Wenders and Arthur Penn, and was the third woman ever hired as a staff photojournalist at United Press International wire service.
Most recently, Harvey has directed three seasons (six episodes) of the Netflix show VIRGIN RIVER, the number one show in the world with billions of minutes viewed.
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I will say there was a sensitivity that is just inherent when you have a female director and just people behind the camera who are coming at it honoring Jennifer's story.
- Annabeth Gish, lead actress: Gone Mom
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Some films become an art piece, while others showcase the art it aims to spotlight. Looking is the Original Sin does both, capturing both the eye of the director and the art that fuels the characters within.
- Adnan M. Toronto Arts Guild
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it was absolutely the story specifically for me, and also that it was being told consciously through a female lens with Gail as our Director.
- Annabeth Gish
AWARDS
LONG STORY, SHORT
Won Best Dramedy at the NYIFF
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NOMINATIONS
NEVER SAW IT COMING
Nominated for best feature at the Soho Film Festival in New York
NORTHERN RESCUE
Nominated for a DGC award
GONE MOM
Shortlisted for an Emmy Nomination
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Gail Harvey's gorgeously crafted Never Saw It Coming is a black hearted, engaging comic gem, driven by outrageous twists.
- Ann Brodie, What She Said
