Alicia K. Harris is a

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, Canada-based film director and screenwriter.Mike Adler
"With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face"
'' Toronto.com'', November 15, 2019. She attracted critical acclaim for her 2019 short film '' Pick'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.Brent Furdyk
"Canadian Screen Awards Announces Winners In Cinematic Arts Categories, Honouring The Year’s Best Movies"
'' Entertainment Tonight Canada'', May 28, 2020.

Early Life & Education

Harris graduated from the Ryerson's School of Image Arts. She is a graduate of the film program at Toronto Metropolitan University and alumna of the Canadian Academy's Directing Program for Women.

Career

Harris wrote and directed her first short film, ''Fatherhood'', in 2014, and won a local filmmaking award at the Scarborough Worldwide Film Festival. She followed up with the short films ''All Things But Forget'' (2015), ''Love Stinks'' (2016), and ''Maybe If It Were a Nice Room'' (2017), and has directed episodes of the Canadian television series '' Lockdown'', ''

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.'' In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside Kathleen Hepburn,

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, Allison White,

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, Tiffany Hsiung, Halima Ouardiri, and Kristina Wagenbauer. Her 2019 short film '' Pick'' won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. For the

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, which followed a unique format of commissioning filmmakers to make short films inspired by the shortlisted albums due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada preventing the staging of a traditional gala, Harris created a film based on

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''. In 2021, Harris directed ''Blackberries'', a short film written by Canadian screenwriter Miali-Elise Coley-Sudlovenick, for CBC Gem and

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'' project. The music video for Savannah Ré's single "Solid", which Harris directed, was a nominee for the 2021

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in 2022, for the web series '' Next Stop''.Brent Furdyk
"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"
'' ET Canada'', February 15, 2022. Harris co-founded the boutique production company, Sugar Glass Films.

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