Movies Dancing in the Dark | ||
Similar Joan Barfoot, Martha Henry, Rosemary Duns, Janet Bailey | ||
Leon Marr is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, who won a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Dancing in the Dark. He was also a nominee, but did not win, for Best Director.
A 1974 graduate of Ryerson University, Marr directed several short films, wrote several unproduced screenplays and worked as an assistant to Norman Jewison on the 1982 film Best Friends. He first read Joan Barfoot's novel Dancing in the Dark in 1983, and worked for three years to get the film made after securing the rights.
Following Dancing in the Dark, Marr optioned the film rights to Judith Thompson's play I Am Yours; however, the financing didn't come through and the film was never made.
Marr has since worked primarily in television, directing episodes of Forever Knight, The Hitchhiker and The Hidden Room and taking a guest acting role in the pilot episode of Saving Hope. His second feature film, The Second Time Around, is slated for release in 2016.