Carolyn Saunders
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Writer-director Carolyn Saunders grew up as a nomadic air force brat. She can still pack a suitcase at Mach 2 and frequently tells stories about identity and home.
Carolyn is the 2024 winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing for Comedy, with Hell's Belles, a script co-written with Sean Stevenson. She won the Writers Guild of Canada's Sondra Kelly Award, was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist in 2021, was selected for the Meryl Streep/Nicole Kidman Writer's Lab and three times shortlisted for Sundance labs.
Carolyn works across genres. She co-wrote Amazon's feminist take on Ted Bundy, the critically acclaimed series Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer. Her dystopian short On Island West won the Directors UK Challenge Alexa and was shot in Cornwall during lockdown. Her short drama Sundown, about a mixed race Canadian indigenous soldier disconnected from his identity, debuted at the 2021 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival.
In 2017, Carolyn made her directorial debut with the microbudget thriller The Wasting. It played to sold-out theatres, winning multiple festival awards, followed by a Canadian theatrical release and distribution in six countries.
A dual Canadian-UK citizen, Carolyn is stupidly in love with storytelling, her boys, troublemaking, and her black lab, Waggo.
Carolyn is the 2024 winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing for Comedy, with Hell's Belles, a script co-written with Sean Stevenson. She won the Writers Guild of Canada's Sondra Kelly Award, was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist in 2021, was selected for the Meryl Streep/Nicole Kidman Writer's Lab and three times shortlisted for Sundance labs.
Carolyn works across genres. She co-wrote Amazon's feminist take on Ted Bundy, the critically acclaimed series Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer. Her dystopian short On Island West won the Directors UK Challenge Alexa and was shot in Cornwall during lockdown. Her short drama Sundown, about a mixed race Canadian indigenous soldier disconnected from his identity, debuted at the 2021 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival.
In 2017, Carolyn made her directorial debut with the microbudget thriller The Wasting. It played to sold-out theatres, winning multiple festival awards, followed by a Canadian theatrical release and distribution in six countries.
A dual Canadian-UK citizen, Carolyn is stupidly in love with storytelling, her boys, troublemaking, and her black lab, Waggo.
