About

Jacqueline Samuda started directing in the theatre (Los Angeles Critics’ Dramalogue Award for Zastrozzi at Company of Angels).  After completing her first two short films, LOOK (winner, ReelFast 2002) and The Sky’s The Limit, she attended WIDC at The Banff Centre, where she made London Calling (a 7-minute short based on her feature script).

In 2003, she directed two shorts for Vancouver Film School’s web channel and was selected by the Directors Guild of Canada and other industry associations to be one of the five “Crazy8s” directors.  The resulting 9-minute film 50 Questions screened at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival; the Whistler Film Festival where it was named Best Short Runner-Up; the inaugural Vidfest screening in Vancouver in June, 2004; and the Women in Film Summer Short festival in July, 2004.

On March 8, 2008, Jacqueline was honoured at Women in Film & TV Vancouver’s Spotlight Awards with the Sharon Gibbon Lifetime Member Award for service to the organization and the advancement of its mandate. At the same event, she also received the inaugural Motion Picture Production Industry Association WIDC Feature Film Award of $100,000 of services toward the production of her long-form directing début of her screenplay BREAD, which has also received three rounds of development from Telefilm Canada, BC Film and Movie Central, supported by distributor Christal.

As a performer, Jacqueline has an extensive resume of credits, including a recurring roles in L Word (airing on Showtime, March 2008), and the Stargate-SG1 franchise  reprising her role as the evil alien Nirrti in the spin-off movie Continuum (released, July 2008). She is the voice for several animated projects, videogames and national commercial campaigns and is a 2008 Voicey (Voiceover) Award Finalist.