About Naomi Jaye
Naomi Jaye was a Canadian screenwriter, writer and film director.
Naomi Jaye is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario. 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.
A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, She has also created video art installation projects, including MRI.
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.
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.
Filmography A Dozen for Lulu - 2002 Peep - 2004 Seeking Simone - 2009 The Pin - 2013 Body Parts - 2014 Miriam's World - 2019 MRI - 2021 Darkest Miriam - 2024 Pool - TBA
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