VANYA ROSE
Vanya Rose studied theatre and visual arts from an early age, spending her childhood between the classrooms of a French colonial school in Montreal, the wilds of the Eastern Townships, and the hallways of the Chelsea Hotel in New York. After acting in and creating theatre productions with the Garrick Players for five years, Vanya began formal theatre training at 15 with Stanislavsky disciple Polina Klimovitskaya. She went on to train in performance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for two years, however, soon changed her attention to directing, completing her degree at McGill University in English/Theatre with first class honours, and receiving numerous prizes for both her directing and stage adaptations. Parallel to her studies, she began to act in film, allowing her the opportunity to observe various approaches of filmmaking from directors from around the world.
After spending a number of years living in London, Paris, and throughout Italy, where she created several theatre productions, she returned to Montreal in order to complete a master’s degree in theatre directing with an FRSC grant for excellence. It was while creating her thesis production that her thesis director recommended she explore filmmaking and she has continued to do so since.
In 2008, she completed Montreal Stories, a series of three poetic portraits that take place throughout the 20th century, starring Lise Roy, Gabriel Gascon, Carl Alacchi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tobie Pelletier and Rebecca Windheim. Vanya has just completed the Directors’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, is presently in post-production for her latest short Impossible starring Tyler Hynes and Charlotte Le Bon and is developing her first feature-length film As the night the day to be produced by Martin Paul-Hus (Amerique Film).
