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Dawn Wilkinson
Dawn Wilkinson directed the award winning short films Girls Who Say Yes, Instant Dread, and Dandelions. She was the apprentice to Norman Jewison on The Hurricane and to Ernest Dickerson on Showtime’s Our America. Dawn’s first feature film Devotion won The Tony Stoltz Completion Award at the 2004 Reel World Film Festival, The Star! Audience Award at the 2005 Reel World Film Festival, and Best Feature at the San Francisco Urban Kids Film Festival. Devotion had its US TV Premiere on Lead Dog Entertainment’s Global Cinema TV on the Black Family Channel. Dawn recently co-directed Unexpected as part of the NFB’s Filmmaker in Residence project at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She has recently completed a web based documentary project for Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and is currently developing TV series Dis Harmony with Halifax Films. Dawn is a U of T grad and an alumni of the CFC Director’s Lab and Short Dramatic Film Program. Her feature script Love Child won the African American Women in Cinema Screenplay Award. She is also the recipient of Women In Film & Television’s 2008 DGC Emerging Television Director Award.
AfterLife Films Youtube Channel including interviews with Dawn Wilkinson and clips from “Devotion”
