Rebecca's latest feature film The Boy In The Woods won her Best Canadian Director at the 2024 Oakville Festival of Film and Arts. Her feature-length documentaries include Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust, nominated for a RealScreen award, a Rockie Award and six Canadian Screen Awards, and Pandora's Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation which won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Special Jury Award at Whistler Film Festival, and had its US premiere at Santa Barbara Film Festival in 2020.
Born and raised in London England, Rebecca's early career was spent working at the BBC on documentary and drama. Continuing her career in both LA and Toronto, her documentary broadcast credits include CBC’s Nature of Things, NBC’s Emmy Award nominated Who Do You Think You Are?, Smithsonian Channel's World's Most Scenic River Journeys, OUT TV's Surviving The Block, and History Channel's Museum Secrets and Real Vikings, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for best direction in a documentary program.
Her first narrative feature The Boy In The Woods played at Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 as an Industry Selects, and more than 30 other festivals worldwide, winning an Audience Choice Award at Manchester International Film Festival and the Torchbearer Award at Miami Jewish Film Festival. The film is based on the life story and best-selling memoir of Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart. It is produced by Lumanity Productions and Jo Bro Productions, with funding from Telefilm Canada.
Rebecca is a proud member of the global female film collective Film Fatales.
Full credits here: IMDB
Born and raised in London England, Rebecca's early career was spent working at the BBC on documentary and drama. Continuing her career in both LA and Toronto, her documentary broadcast credits include CBC’s Nature of Things, NBC’s Emmy Award nominated Who Do You Think You Are?, Smithsonian Channel's World's Most Scenic River Journeys, OUT TV's Surviving The Block, and History Channel's Museum Secrets and Real Vikings, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for best direction in a documentary program.
Her first narrative feature The Boy In The Woods played at Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 as an Industry Selects, and more than 30 other festivals worldwide, winning an Audience Choice Award at Manchester International Film Festival and the Torchbearer Award at Miami Jewish Film Festival. The film is based on the life story and best-selling memoir of Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart. It is produced by Lumanity Productions and Jo Bro Productions, with funding from Telefilm Canada.
Rebecca is a proud member of the global female film collective Film Fatales.
Full credits here: IMDB