Leah Johnston(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Leah Johnston is a filmmaker from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her short film, Ingrid and the Black Hole premiered at Fantasia Film Festival and was showcased at dozens of film festivals, winning eight awards, including Best Canadian Short at Edmonton International Film Festival. Her most recent film Mother's Skin was the only live-action film from North America selected to premiere in the 2023 Golden Goblet Competition at Shanghai International Film Festival. It took home two awards at Atlantic Film Festival, including Best Short and the Joan Orenstein Award for Outstanding Performance for its six-year old leading actress, Briar Ainslie. Leah is the recipient of the Corus Fearless Female Filmmaker Award, the $35,000 Bravofact/WIFT Prize and the National Screen Institute Drama Prize. She graduated with a B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumna of Canadian Film Centre's Feature Film Directing Lab, the National Screen Institute, the Reykjavik Talent Lab and the Academy of Canadian Cinema Inaugural Women's Directing program.
October 8, 2023.
October 8, 2023.