Sharon Lewis is an award-winning Director & Showrunner. In 2021, she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction of a Factual Series. Sharon's feature film debut, Brown Girl Begins, is an Afro-futurist sci-fi tale of a young black woman who saves her community through her connection to Caribbean spirits. The film has toured the world, garnering awards and recognition, including a CSA nomination for Lewis for Best Screenplay. Sharon's first feature documentary, Disruptor Conductor, is about the first openly-gay, black Orchestral Conductor in Canada and it is being met with critical acclaim. Her latest feature documentary, With Wonder, is about the LGBTQI+ community's thriving after conversion therapy and it won the Audience Choice Award at Reelworld Film Festival 2021. Sharon is also continuing her work through her production company urbansoul inc on genre features and scripted TV series, highlighting the stories and talents of black women, black queer women, and the BIPOC 2SLGBTQ+ community.