Sandra Kybartas

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Sandra Kybartas is a Canadian production designer and film director. [1] She was a two-time Genie Award winner at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996, winning Best Art Direction/Production Design for her work on the film Lilies , and Best Theatrical Short Film as director of The Home for Blind Women . [2]

An alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, Kybartas trained in architecture and design before working in film. [3] Her other credits as a designer have included the films Breaking All the Rules , Zero Patience , Camilla , Soul Survivor , Promise the Moon and The Republic of Love , and the television series Due South , The State Within , This Is Wonderland , ReGenesis , Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures , The Listener and Murdoch Mysteries .

She received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Art Direction or Production Design in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 12th Gemini Awards in 1998 for Promise the Moon, [4] and was a two-time Directors Guild of Canada nominee for her work on ReGenesis, winning in 2006 for the episode "Genie in a Bottle". [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Blind ambition pays off for director Sandy Kybartas". Toronto Star , February 2, 1996.
  2. ↑ "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard , November 28, 1996.
  3. ↑ "Rookie director's casting search case of blind leading the not-blind". Toronto Star , March 3, 1995.
  4. ↑ "CBC's 5th Estate leads the pack for 1997". Canadian Press, January 13, 1998.
  5. ↑ "Cronenberg's 'History of Violence' sweeps director's guild awards". Canadian Press, October 15, 2006.


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