Amy Sark

Amy Sark is an Aboriginal writer, director and producer from PEI, a small Island off of the East Coast of Canada. She is half Mi'kmaq/half Irish and grew up in a small rural community off-Reserve. She began writing at a very early age and her poetry earned her an honorable mention from The 1993 Milton Acorn Festival, Stay in School category, in Charlottetown PEI. She first got involved with TV in 2002 and involved in film shortly afterwards. She writes in three genres; cultural, comedy and horror and has gravitated more towards documentary storytelling and personal passion projects in 2018. She has successfully completed and screened (when breaking into the Industry) her first short film in 2010 (through a local film co-op provincial grant) and continues to write and shoot short films and PSA's when she isn't on-set assisting with productions in the British Columbia Film, Commercial and TV Industry. Amy was one of 16 people chosen to participate and represent Prince Edward Island at The 2010 PEI Screenwriters' Bootcamp at the Haviland Club in Charlottetown PEI. In 2014, Amy was approached by Sandy Carruthers (the original artist on the Men In Black series) to collaborate on a new Comic Book Aboriginal Super heroine, through One Tribe Anthology. She is a freelance International Film and TV-film fixer for various production companies across Canada and the US. She was formerly the Atlantic Canada NIMAC representative until she later moved out of the Atlantic Region. She is also a freelance Aboriginal Youth Film and Documentary/PSA Mentor and also a One Tribe Anthology collaborator. Amy has also served as a Jury member for prominent Canadian film grants (mainly Aboriginal and Atlantic Canadian funding) and enjoys the entire creative process. Amy is also an Aboriginal Human Rights Activist who worked to advocate for Aboriginal people who utilize Atlantic Canada's medical/health care system. She was one of the first NIHB Pharmacy Technician Navigators in Canada, her jurisdiction was NFLD up to BC.