Annmarie Morais

Annmarie Morais (born 1973 in Jamaica) is a Jamaican-Canadian screenwriter best known for writing the film "How She Move". She earned a BFA from York University in Film and Video in 1995.
Morais won funding for two Vision TV Cultural Diversity Drama Competition movies: "Hotel Babylon" and "Da Kink in My Hair", which aired on Vision in 2004 and 2005. "Hotel Babylon" is the story of immigrants working in a hotel in Winnipeg, Canada. "Kink" was adapted from the Trey Anthony play about a beauty parlour in a Jamaican-Canadian neighbourhood. Morais was also a writer and story editor on the television series adapted from the play, which aired on Global Television in 2007.
Nicholl Prize.
Morais was the first Canadian to win the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. She was also the first person to win the Nicholl with a resubmitted script. "Bleeding" was a finalist in 1998, and she resubmitted it without changes in 1999.
The prize, administered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, garnered Morais $25,000.
"How She Move".
While at York, Morais had produced a short documentary "Steppin" on step-dancing in Toronto's Jane-Finch neighborhood. In 2004, she received Telefilm financing to produce a feature film based on the same concept. Originally titled "Step", the film "How She Move" was accepted into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. At Sundance, a bidding war resulted in a $3.4 million offer from Paramount and MTV Films.
 The film received wide release in the United States and Canada in January 2007.
Current projects.
Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Toronto, Morais has created a television show for ABC Family about high-school cheerleaders, called "The Flip Side." She is also writing a thriller set in London, "The Collectors" to be directed by fellow Jamaican-Canadian Clement Virgo and adapting Jane Finlay-Young's novel "From Bruised Fell".