Sharon Corder is an American writer, producer, and educator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With her husband

Jack Blum Jack Blum is a Canadian writer, producer, director, story editor, actor, educator and communications consultant based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With his longtime partner Sharon Corder, he has written and produced more than fifty hours of tele ...

, she has written and produced more than fifty hours of television drama for both Canadian and American broadcasters. In 2005, Blum and Corder began

Reel Canada Reel Canada (stylized as REEL CANADA) is a non-profit organization based in Toronto dedicated to the presentation of Canadian films in Canadian schools. It is the organization behind National Canadian Film Day, an event in April, inaugurated in 2014 ...

, their non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating Canadian film.

Biography

Early life and education

Born in

Waco, Texas Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the ...

into a military family, Corder moved across the American Southwest according to her father's deployments, including Hawaii and Japan. She trained in theatre at the

University of California at Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

Career

In the mid-1970s, Corder moved to Vancouver to pursue a theatrical career. There, she founded the Genesis Company Theatre, playing leading roles as an actor in travelling productions across Canada. In 1985, she met and began working with Jack Blum, who would become her co-writer and co-producer on Canadian television series like '' Traders, Catwalk,'' and '' Power Play''. In 1998, Corder and Blum wrote and produced
Babyface
', which premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes.Pratley, G. (2003) A Century of Canadian Cinema, Lynx Images , pg 260

Charity work

In 2005, Corder and Blum founded

, an educational program entitled "Our Films in Our Schools" aimed at promoting Canadian film in high schools. The initiative has since spawned "Welcome to Canada," a Canadian film summit for newcomers to Canada, and "National Canadian Film Day," a one-day country-wide celebration of Canadian film with local screening partners in every province and territory. Corder is the Artistic Director of Reel Canada.

Filmography

Movies

Television

Awards

''Getting Out'':

Dora Mavor Moore Award The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora Award) is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped estab ...

for Artistic Excellence and Theatrical Innovation

References

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