Ami Canaan Mann on Directing Natalie Dormer as a Heroic Real-Life Doctor in ‘Audrey’s Children’ and What She Learned Watching Her Dad Direct ‘Heat’
variety.comWilliam Earl “Audrey’s Children” — in theaters Friday via Blue Harbor Entertainment — tells the true story of pediatric oncologist Dr.
Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), who upended medicine with a new treatment of Neuroblastoma, an often-deadly childhood nerve cancer, all while standing up for herself in her field and caring for her young patients.
With a script from Julia Fisher Farbman, the film is directed by Ami Canaan Mann, whose storytelling extends to many different genres in both features (the romantic drama “Jackie & Ryan,” the crime story “Texas Killing Fields”) and television (“The Blacklist,” “Power,” “House of Cards”).
Mann opens up about the documentary that influenced her style on “Audrey’s Children,” the role that inspired her to work with Dormer and what she learned working on the set of “Heat” with her father, Michael Mann.
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