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RssSarah Polley is best known for acting role in the 2008 Oscar nominated film Away From Her. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards: best actress for Julie Christie and best adapted screenplay, Sarah Polley herself. She started her career as an actress, then moved on to politics and now came back as a successful filmmaker. Here is an excerpt of her entrepreneurial journey published on experience.com.
by Jenny Halper
Sarah Polley looks like a college student-young on this cool April day, shaking off a winter jacket that screams “Canada!” and plopping down at a table laden with cookies. But that’s not what surprises me when I meet the twenty-eight-year-old star of The Sweet Hereafter, Go, and countless other films. It’s her Hollywood-proof attitude, open and matter-of-fact. She greets me with a friendly smile and a down-to-earth air.
The Ontario native is in New York to talk about Away from Her, a film adaptation of Alice Munro’s story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” that marks Polley’s feature debut as writer-director. It’s about an aging woman with Alzheimer’s disease-not a subject likely to lure summer audiences to the Cineplex, and not the first topic you’d imagine a writer/director who hasn’t even hit her thirtieth birthday tackling. But Polley, who was acting by the age of four, advocating peace at eleven, and writing and directing short films by the time she was twenty, has never been one to accept age limitations or follow conventions-Hollywood, Canadian, or otherwise.
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