SANDRA PAOLUCCI is a Toronto-based producer who produced the award-winning film Rock Garden: a love story (35mm, drama, RT: 11min, CBC/Bravo) directed by Gloria Kim, which has screened at over 30 international films festivals to date. Described as “absolutely beautiful” by Oscar nominated director, Atom Egoyan, the film won the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah as well as the Special Jury Prize at the 2008 WorldFest-Houston Film Festival. Most recently, the film won the Best Visual Effects in an Independent/Short Film award at the 3rd Annual Elan Awards. Joshua Allen, the film’s Director of Photography, was nominated for the Best Cinematography – Short Film award by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers in 2009. Sandra recently completed the short film, The Auction (16mm, drama, RT: 15min, CBC), a 70s period piece set in Toronto about a 10-year-old Korean girl’s quest to make up for the life her mother left behind. The film will have it’s world premiere at the 2010 Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival. Sandra’s credits also bridge the television world, working with Beth Stevenson of Decode Entertainment producing the one-hour soccer documentary Going for Gold at Gothia (1 x 60) for TVO. While at Decode, Sandra also worked on several animated series including the Decode/Hat Trick co-production Bromwell High (13 x 30) for Channel 4 and Teletoon, as well as Girlstuff/Boystuff (26 x 11) for YTV. Sandra is a former CFTPA Intern and is now working with the commissioning team at Canwest developing original Canadian dramatic content for Showcase and Global Television.