About

Tanya Lemke is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker with over twenty-five years of professional film and TV production experience. She is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Prime Time TV Writing Program and of the National Screen Institute’s Diverse TV Director Program. Tanya’s short drama HAPPY PILLS aired on HBO Canada as part of the anthology LITTLE FILMS ABOUT BIG MOMENTS, after screening at festivals worldwide. The script for her next short film STATIC won the Screenplay Giveaway Prize at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, and the film, starring screen legends Eric Peterson and Yannick Bisson, went on to win numerous festival awards including Best Emerging Short Filmmaker at Fantasia International Film Festival, Best Actor In A Short Film at the Canadian Film Fest, Best Canadian Short Film at the Vancouver Badass Film Festival and the Brian Linehan Actors Award at the NSI Online Short Film Festival, before being broadcast on the CBC and streaming on demand. Recently, Tanya’s short script EMERY placed highly in multiple competitions, winning first prize in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab. Tanya is currently developing a number of film and TV projects, including her first feature film as writer/director.