Ami Canaan Mann is a British-born American film director, television director and television writer. Career Mann has worked as a television and film writer since writing the NYPD Blue episode "Tea and Sympathy" in 2000. She has won three awards, all in 2001 for her first film as a director, Morning. These included the Audience Award at Dahlonega International Film Festival, Grand Prize for best directorial debut and Gold Award for Independent Theatrical Feature Films – First Feature. Her 2011 film, Texas Killing Fields, screened in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September. Jackie & Ryan, her romance film starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes, screened in the Horizons section at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Personal life Mann is the daughter of director Michael Mann. Filmography Films Television References External links Writers from London American film directors Jewish American writers American people of Russian-Jewish descent American television writers American television directors American women film directors American women television directors Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women television writers English-language film directors Film directors from London 1969 births 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women