Sharon Lewis has won two Canadian Screen Awards for her directing. She is an 8-time Canadian Screen Award (CSA) nominated Director based in Toronto, ON. Her unique cinematic flair and ability to tell entertaining stories spans over 20 years in the industry. Sharon's feature film debut, “Brown Girl Begins” (2017), is an Afro-futurist sci-fi tale of a young black woman who saves her community through her connection to Caribbean spirits.The film continues to play on Hulu, Amazon, and HBO, was recently named “one of the top 15 Black Sci-Fi Films” by Ranker.com and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay. Sharon's first feature documentary, “Disruptor Conductor” (2019), is about the first openly-gay, black orchestral Conductor in Canada and it won “Best Documentary” at multiple film festivals. Sharon also has TV & movie directing credits with Netflix, NBC, Lifetime, CTV, OWN, and more and she can be seen in the Emmy- and NAACP-nominated film “How It Feels To Be Free”. Sharon was born in Toronto, Canada and trained in Los Angeles, but she still has strong ties to her Jamaican/Trinidadian roots and works hard at giving voice to black people and people of color in all the projects she has the privilege of directing and producing under her company urbansoul inc.
