Amy Sark

Amy Sark is an Aboriginal writer, director and producer from PEI, a small Island off the East Coast of Canada. She is half Mi'kmaq/half Irish and grew up in a small rural community off-Reserve. She began writing at a very early age, and her poetry earned her an honourable mention from The 1993 Milton Acorn Festival, Stay in School category, in Charlottetown PEI. She first got involved with TV in 2002 and then in film shortly afterwards. She writes in three genres; cultural, comedy, and horror. She has gravitated more toward documentary storytelling and personal passion projects from 2018 onwards. When breaking into the industry, she completed and screened her first short film in 2010 through a local film co-op provincial grant. Amy continues to write and still assists with productions in the British Columbia Film, Commercial and TV Industry. Amy was one of 16 chosen to participate and represent Prince Edward Island at The 2010 PEI Screenwriters' Bootcamp at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown, PEI. Amy Sandy Carruthers (the original artist on the Men In Black series) to collaborate on a new Comic Book Aboriginal Superheroine through Unlikely Heroes Studios ELSEWHERE Anthology. She is a freelance International Film and TV and film fixer for various production companies across Canada and the US. She was formerly the Atlantic Canada NIMAC representative until she moved out of the Atlantic Region. She is also a freelance Aboriginal Youth Film and Documentary/PSA Mentor and an Unlikely Heroes Studios ELSEWHERE Anthology collaborator. She has served as a Jury member for prominent Canadian film grants (mainly Aboriginal and Atlantic Canadian funding) and enjoys the entire creative process. Amy is also an Aboriginal Human Rights Activist who worked to advocate for Aboriginal people who utilize Atlantic Canada's medical/health care system. She was one of the first NIHB Pharmacy Technician Navigators in Canada; her jurisdiction was from NFLD to BC.