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Sandy Wilson (director)
Sandra "Sandy" Wilson (born 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is best known for her films My American Cousin (1985) and Harmony Cats (1992). Most of her films take place in the same areas she grew up: Penticton and the Okanagan.
Wilson has received critical acclaim for her films. At the 1986 Genie Awards, My American Cousin won six awards including Best Achievement in Direction, Best Original Screenplay and Best Motion Picture. Harmony Cats was nominated for Genie Awards in 1993.
Sandra "Sandy" Wilson was born in 1947 in Penticton, British Columbia, and is of English descent. She grew up in Paradise Ranch just outside of Penticton.
She has a brother named Brian, who has a physical disability. He was the subject and inspiration for Wilson's 1972 documentary He's Not the Walking Kind.
Wilson studied English and History at Simon Fraser University. She never intended to become a filmmaker but when she signed up for a Film Workshop at the university, Wilson discovered her passion for moving images.
Wilson started her career in filmmaking in 1969. She began writing, producing and directing films in Vancouver. Much of Wilson's early work consists of short personal documentaries. For The Bridal Shower (1972), Growing Up in Paradise (1977) and He's Not the Walking Kind Wilson incorporated home video footage that her father shot on 16mm film.
The success of her early personal documentaries inspired Wilson to begin work on her first feature film. In 1972, during work on He's Not the Walking Kind, she began an outline of My American Cousin.
My American Cousin is Wilson's first feature film. It is a semi-autobiographical film, inspired by her childhood memories. It follows a twelve-year-old girl's coming-of-age during a summer in the late 1950s in Okanagan, British Columbia.
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Sandy Wilson (director)
Sandra "Sandy" Wilson (born 1947) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is best known for her films My American Cousin (1985) and Harmony Cats (1992). Most of her films take place in the same areas she grew up: Penticton and the Okanagan.
Wilson has received critical acclaim for her films. At the 1986 Genie Awards, My American Cousin won six awards including Best Achievement in Direction, Best Original Screenplay and Best Motion Picture. Harmony Cats was nominated for Genie Awards in 1993.
Sandra "Sandy" Wilson was born in 1947 in Penticton, British Columbia, and is of English descent. She grew up in Paradise Ranch just outside of Penticton.
She has a brother named Brian, who has a physical disability. He was the subject and inspiration for Wilson's 1972 documentary He's Not the Walking Kind.
Wilson studied English and History at Simon Fraser University. She never intended to become a filmmaker but when she signed up for a Film Workshop at the university, Wilson discovered her passion for moving images.
Wilson started her career in filmmaking in 1969. She began writing, producing and directing films in Vancouver. Much of Wilson's early work consists of short personal documentaries. For The Bridal Shower (1972), Growing Up in Paradise (1977) and He's Not the Walking Kind Wilson incorporated home video footage that her father shot on 16mm film.
The success of her early personal documentaries inspired Wilson to begin work on her first feature film. In 1972, during work on He's Not the Walking Kind, she began an outline of My American Cousin.
My American Cousin is Wilson's first feature film. It is a semi-autobiographical film, inspired by her childhood memories. It follows a twelve-year-old girl's coming-of-age during a summer in the late 1950s in Okanagan, British Columbia.