Roz Owen

Roz Owen is a multiple award-winning writer and director who works in both drama and documentary. Born in the UK, where she spent her childhood, she now lives in Toronto.

Trouble in the Garden is Roz’s recent dramatic feature, is available on Prime Video and itunes worldwide. It has screened in festivals across Canada the US and New Zealand where it has been nominated for many awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actress at the 44th American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.

Her feature doc Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge (2012) has gained critical acclaim in screenings across Canada and internationally.

Her short dramas, including Genie nominated YOU LOVE ME I HATE YOU have shown at many world festivals including TIFF, Locarno, Namur Belgium, and Mexico. In 2006, Roz was awarded the KODAK New Vision Fellowship for her writing.

She is now writing Truth or Dare, her fifth dramatic script with plans to go into production summer 2025. Though she has directed episodic television, her heart remains in independent filmmaking and teaching Film Production at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of Image Arts.

Roz is alumni of both the Canadian Film Centre’s director-resident and short film program. She was invited to Cinemart to pitch her Canadian-British co-production, Look Both Ways which she plans to put into production after shooting Truth or Dare.