Sarah Deakins

Born in Kenosha Wisconsin to British parents multi award winning actor writer director Sarah Deakins spent the first year of her life in Chicago until her parents decided to move to Canada She was heavily inspired by her artist stepmother growing up deeply affected by her descent into Schizophrenia and having lost this childhood idol to the streets her work often illustrates the fragility and unexpected integrity of the disenfranchised and the downtrodden A graduate of the University of Victoria theatre program Ms Deakins has extensive stage and screen credits An award winning short film writerdirector the first short she penned and starred in Late went to Cannes as part of Telefilm Canadas Not Short On Talent Program and more recently Deakins has collected over 25 awards on the festival circuit as the writer and director of Greece produced by Brightlight Pictures She is the writerdirector of a multi award winning 12 hour pilot Yellow again with Brightlight Pictures for a limited anthology series called IN PERSON currently in development Ms Deakins is also developing a digital series inspired by her stepmother about the people who fall through the cracks and those who try to help them called HAPPENSTANCE Her feature film script VIOLET recently won the top prize in the 2021 Golden Script Competition with an earlier draft placing in the top 40 of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship competition The most recent draft of VIOLET garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Screencraft Feature Screenplay Competition Ms Deakins makes her home in three main cities splitting the year between LA Toronto and Vancouver