Biography:

Renée Hackett is an actor, writer, producer, and director. Her original short form TV series What Odds is currently on Bell Fibe TV. It won Best Web Series Pilot at the Berlin Women Cinema Festival and has received nominations for the Canadian Screen Awards, LA Independent Women Film Awards, and the Miami Web Fest. Her short film Some Saturdays was an Official Selection at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, Atlantic International Film Festival, Nickel Independent Film Festival - Winner: Best Cinematography, Silver Wave Film Festival, and Smith Sound Film Festival. Over her 30-year career she has appeared on stages across the country and in numerous television shows, including Hudson & Rex, Departure, Astrid & Lilly Save the World. She can currently be seen in The Missus Downstairs on Bell Fibe TV. She is an alumna of The National Screen Institute's Business for Producers Program, Women in the Director's Chair, back-to-back WIFT-Atlantic mentorship programs, The LA Emerging Producers Mission, and back-to-back PEI Screenwriter's Bootcamps.