Raised in the arresting landscapes of Muskoka, award winning writer/director Annie Bradley is known for her striking cinematic work and strong storytelling. She is an alumna of the Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, the TIFF Talent Lab, TIFF Pitch This!, the CFC Directors Lab, Film Fatales LA, AWD and WIDC. Her work has screened on five continents and been featured in American Cinematographer.
While developing a slate of projects through her company The Heat Mansion, Annie has built a diverse resume of international directing and writing credits spanning film, television, music videos and commercials for Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, CBS, CW, Discovery, Uptv, BBC, W, A&E, Lifetime, Crave, Channel4 and Hallmark.
So far this year, Annie has helmed In The Dark for CW/CBS and is currently in prep for the MOW, The Good Doctor starring Tom Everett Scott for Lifetime. In 2020, she directed Catherine Bell and Mark Deklin in the Hallmark smash Meet Me at Christmas in Alberta. Her Lifetime thriller Tempted by Danger premiered with over 1.2 million viewers and her feature doc, I’m Going to Break Your Heart (Crave) starring Canadian music icons Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida was a 2020 Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Arts Documentary and is streaming on multiple platforms.
In 2019, Annie directed multiple episodes of the sci-fi series Endlings (Hulu), the romcom Sincerely Yours Truly, 2 episodes of the juggernaut series The Good Witch, an episode of My Perfect Landing as well as the true crime miniseries Cold Valley while her short thriller Blowback toured the festival circuit.
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In 2018, Annie was chosen as one of 5 international female directors to officially observe on Handmaids Tale and was thrilled to be paired with internationally acclaimed Director Jeremy Podeswa. (Station 11, Game of Thrones, The Loudest Voice)
Annie is attached to write and direct Blowback a gritty female cop thriller based on her short film. Her development slate includes: The Dissonance, a dystopian conspiracy series, the comedy series Ir-Reverend, (Screencraft 2015, JFL 2015), Just One Day, a feminist heist caper and Barracuda, a gothic western set in Iceland.
She is represented by Carmen Bonnici at Pacific Artists Management.
Awards & Nominations
I’m Going to Break Your Heart (feature documentary)
2020 Nomination,Best Arts Documentary, Canadian Screen Awards
2020 Nomination, ACTRA Nell Shipman Award
Blowback (short film)
2017 Cayle Chernin Award for Production
The WBI (feature film script)
2016 Top Ten Canadian Film Festival (CFF)
2014 Best Reserve Screenplay, Female Eye Film Festival
2012 Finalist, TIFF PitchTHIS!
Ir-Reverend (series script)
2015 Finalist, JFL Series Pitch Competition