Anne Wheeler

Born in Edmonton, Anne Wheeler graduated from U of A with a Mathematics degree in 1967 and began a Masters of Music before starting her filmmaking career in the early seventies dedicated to defining what it was to be western Canadian. In 1978 she joined the National Film Board to help establish a regional presence across the country. Her documentary, A War Story, based on her Father’s experiences as a doctor in a Japanese POW camp won several international awards. By the eighties she was writing and directing dramatic material including adaptations of Canadian short stories and television series such as DaVinci’s Inquest, Cold Squad, North of Sixty, and This is Wonderland. To date she has directed more than twenty feature length films including Loyalties, Bye Bye Blues, Angel Square, The Diviners, The War Between Us, The Sleep Room, The Investigation, Suddenly Naked, Better than Chocolate and Living out Loud. Respected as an award winning filmmaker and teacher, she has received six Honorary Doctorates and The Order of Canada.