Claire Sanford

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Claire Sanford is a Canadian film director and cinematographer based in Montreal, Quebec. [1] She is most noted for her 2022 short documentary film Violet Gave Willingly , which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022, [2] and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. [3]

Originally from Texada Island in British Columbia, [1] she studied film at Simon Fraser University. She has directed a number of short films, including Lily (2009), Rheo (2014), What Should Be Heard Not Seen (2018) and Texada (2023). [1]

Her cinematography credits have included the feature documentary film Fanny: The Right to Rock (2021), [4] for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022. [5]

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