Naomi Jaye

Naomi Jaye is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario."Filmmaker Naomi Jaye to debut first Yiddish-language feature ever filmed in Canada". The City Centre Mirror, April 29, 2014. She is most noted for her 2024 film Darkest Miriam, for which she received Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025.Samritha Arunasalam, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-screen-awards-2025-nominees-1.7491909 "Here's who is nominated for the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards"]. CBC News, March 26, 2025.

A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, she made a number of short films before releasing The Pin, her directorial debut and the first Yiddish language film ever made in Canada, in 2013.Chris Knight, "A fine yiddish-language romance". National Post, June 27, 2014. She has also created video art installation projects, including MRI.Nick Lachance, [https://nowtoronto.com/culture/a-toronto-art-installation-takes-you-inside-an-mri-machine/ "A Toronto art installation takes you inside an MRI machine"]. Now, November 8, 2021.

In 2022 she staged Miriam's World, a multimedia theatrical adaptation of the same Martha Baillie novel that would become Darkest Miriam, at Theatre Passe Muraille.Kate Taylor, "Miriam’s World transforms theatre into a walk-through library". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2022.

She won the Directors Guild of Canada award for best direction in a Canadian film at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival for Darkest Miriam.John Hazelton, [https://www.screendaily.com/news/french-epic-the-count-of-monte-cristo-named-best-film-at-fantasia/5195796.article "French epic ‘The Count Of Monte-Cristo’ named best film at Fantasia"]. Screen Daily, July 28, 2024.