Alana Cymerman

Film and Television

A budding director and screenwriter with potential to burn, Alana Cymerman began her career in the local film and television industry as a location manager and scout, working on Montreal shoots with such respected directors as Steven Spielberg, Denys Arcand, and Todd Haynes. Not content to simply shop backgrounds for the pros, in 2007, she was selected for The Women in the Director's Chair Program (in Banff) and the Toronto International Film Festival’s Talent Lab.  By the following year, she had secured development funding for her feature script, A Good Enough Mother.  Cymerman has also written and directed short films such as An Unremarkable Question and the award-winning When Erma Made Herman, as well as the musical comedy The Perfect Vacuum, and her fantastical next project, Julia Julep. Other feature projects, such as Erma Invents The Love Machine and The Mystique of Lost Ladies, are both in development. Meanwhile, her documentary work has included Women Warriors, a look at female Olympians for the CBC. (DN)