2019 International Film Festival

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WINTER FILM AWARDS 2019 WINNER - Best Director
NOMINEE - OUTSTANDING WOMAN DIRECTOR
  • 2018

  • Canada

  • 34 mins

  • English, French

  • NYC Premiere

  • Short Film Competition

Sarah Deakins
Julia Benson, Arielle Boisvert
Ryan Robbins (The Poet), Adrian Holmes (Security Guard), Stephanie Belding (40 Something Woman), Kacey Rohl (Selfie Girl)

Ten characters each experience a crossroads in their lives on a seemingly ordinary afternoon in an art gallery. Yellow is the first in a series of seven films, one for each colour of the rainbow, each with a recurring theme of human connection and expression through the arts.


Sarah Deakins’ “Yellow” is the color of fleeting moments that exist foreverOlivia Butler, Winter Film AWards
YellowTiffany Tchobanian, Film Threat

About the Director

Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to British parents, multi award-winning actor, writer, director Sarah Deakins is a graduate of the University of Victoria theater program, and has extensive stage and screen credits. The first short film she penned and starred in, Late, went to Cannes as part of Telefilm Canada’s ‘Not Short On Talent’ Program, and more recently, she has collected over 25 awards on the festival circuit as the writer and director of Greece, produced by Brightlight Pictures.

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Awards

2017 Dances With Films Festival (US) – Audience Award, Pilots
2017 Leo Awards (Canada) – Best Actor
2017 Best Shorts Competition (US) – Award of Excellence Actor Leading
2017 Best Shorts Competition (US) – Award of Excellence Actress Leading
2017 Best Shorts Competition (US) – Award of Excellence Special Mention TV – Pilot Program
2017 Best Shorts Competition (US) – Award of Excellence Women Filmmakers


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