Ami Canaan Mann on Directing Natalie Dormer as a Heroic Real-Life Doctor in ‘Audrey’s Children’ and What She Learned Watching Her Dad Direct ‘Heat’

“Audrey’s Children” — in theaters Friday via Blue Harbor Entertainment — tells the true story of pediatric oncologist Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), who upended medicine with a new treatment of Neuroblastoma, an often-deadly childhood nerve cancer, all while standing up for herself in her field and caring for her young patients. With a script from Julia Fisher Farbman, the film is directed by Ami Canaan Mann, whose storytelling extends to many different genres in both features (the romantic drama “Jackie & Ryan,” the crime story “Texas Killing Fields”) and television (“The Blacklist,” “Power,” “House of Cards”). Mann opens up about the documentary that influenced her style on “Audrey’s Children,” the

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