Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman has been making “autodocumentaries”
(a phrase she coined to describe turning the camera back on oneself to tell one’s own story) since her youth - using humour and candour to show a side of the female psyche not typically seen in the mainstream media.
Described as a "one-woman film industry" (Montreal Gazette) and
“our Woodette Allen” (Peter Wintonick, award-winning documentarian)
Sharon produces, writes, directs and edits her movies -
and also stars in them!
After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Educational Technology, Sharon
had the great honour of being mentored by one of Canada’s pioneer
cinéma vérité filmmakers Wolf Koenig, who encouraged her to experiment further with the autodocumentary form.
This led to a collaboration with best pal Naomi Levine on their first “grownup” autodocumentary WORRIED, which premiered at Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma and was broadcast nationwide on The Women’s Network.
Montreal Gazette film critic John Griffin wrote:
"Two white chicks, filming it as they live it, and working it out.
As therapy, it obviously has its uses.
As art, undoubtedly. And as entertainment, absolutely… "
The Globe and Mail 's John Doyle wrote:
“The poignancy of life's large and small complications - the worries -
resonates because the talk lingers in the mind after the film has ended... It draws an epiphany out of the ordinary”
