Award winning director Naomi Jaye’s roots in visual design bring a distinctive charm to her work that often focuses on the comedic side of human frailty.
Her debut feature film THE PIN is one of North America’s only Yiddish language films to be made in over six decades. Shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, THE PIN opened in theatres across North America to rave reviews. The New York Times declared, “It is It’s almost bewildering to think what this first-time feature director could build with a larger budget.”
Alumnae of the TIFF Talent Lab and The Women in the Director’s Chair, and winner of the WIFT New Vision Mentorship, Naomi is hard at work adapting Martha Baillie’s Giller Prize nominated novel THE INCIDENT REPORT.
She is also in development on an outlandish musical feature WAXING POETIC. In addition, she is working on a UAE/Canada project THE COMMON FATHER, a film about a woman’s journey in search of her past from Madrid through Mumbai to Amman.