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Ami Canaan Mann on Directing Natalie Dormer as a Heroic Real-Life Doctor in ‘Audrey’s Children’ and What She Learned Watching Her Dad Direct ‘Heat’


Ami Canaan Mann directed the new historical drama "Audrey's Children," starring Natalie Dormer.

With a script from Julia Fisher Farbman, the film is directed by Ami Canaan Mann, whose storytelling extends to many different genres in both features (the romantic drama “Jackie & Ryan,” the crime story “Texas Killing Fields”) and television (“The Blacklist,” “Power,” “House of Cards”). Natalie Dormer, left, and director Ami Canaan Mann on the set of “Audrey’s Children.” Courtesy of Blue Harbor Entertainment How are you able to approach a film about an overwhelmingly sad topic — in this case, very sick children — and make it have enough levity to be a well-rounded work that examines Evans?

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