Laurie Townshend

Biography

Laurie Townshend is a Canadian filmmaker, whose feature documentary debut A Mother Apart was released in 2024. Townshend began her career as a middle school drama teacher at Sir Ernest MacMillan Senior Public School in Toronto, Ontario, where her students included Shamier Anderson and Stephan James. In 2013, she released the short drama film The Railpath Hero, and subsequently directed an episode of the 2016 documentary web series The Akua Benjamin Legacy Project.

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