About

Polly Pierce is an emerging director with Canadian-Australian dual citizenship and biracial ethnicity (Chinese and Caucasian). She has worked throughout Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Polly is a member of the Western Canada International Camera Guild – ICG 669 and has amassed more than 80 professional credits in her over decade-long career as a 1st and 2nd Assistant in the camera department. She has also been a cinematographer on award-winning short films that have screened at the Honolulu International Film Festival and the Canada International Film Festival. Polly wrote, produced, and directed two short films: the pandemic-set rom-com, Dependable Pandemic Partner, shot entirely remotely and on iPhones during the height of lockdown, and her award-winning supernatural dark comedy Wytch Craft, for which she received the Best Female Director Award at the Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills and Best Female Filmmaker Award at the Chicago Indie Film Awards. Recently, Polly directed the coming of age short, Slump which explores toxic locker room culture through the female lens. Now on its festival run, the film has been nominated for Best Lead Actress, Best Short and Best Movie Director at the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival. Summer 2021, Polly shadowed director David Frazee on the Global TV series Family Law.