Naomi Jaye

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Naomi Jaye is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario. [1] She is most noted for her 2024 film Darkest Miriam , for which she received Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025. [2]

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A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, [1] she made a number of short films before releasing The Pin, her directorial debut and the first Yiddish language film ever made in Canada, in 2013. [3] She has also created video art installation projects, including MRI. [4]

In 2022 she staged Miriam's World, a multimedia theatrical adaptation of the same Martha Baillie novel that would become Darkest Miriam, at Theatre Passe Muraille. [5]

She won the Directors Guild of Canada award for best direction in a Canadian film at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival for Darkest Miriam. [6]

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  1. 1 2 "Filmmaker Naomi Jaye to debut first Yiddish-language feature ever filmed in Canada". The City Centre Mirror, April 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Samritha Arunasalam, "Here's who is nominated for the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, March 26, 2025.
  3. ↑ Chris Knight, "A fine yiddish-language romance". National Post , June 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Nick Lachance, "A Toronto art installation takes you inside an MRI machine". Now , November 8, 2021.
  5. ↑ Kate Taylor, "Miriam’s World transforms theatre into a walk-through library". The Globe and Mail , December 13, 2022.
  6. ↑ John Hazelton, "French epic ‘The Count Of Monte-Cristo’ named best film at Fantasia". Screen Daily , July 28, 2024.


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