Claire Sanford is a Canadian film director and cinematographer based in Montreal, Quebec.[1] She is most noted for her 2022 short documentary film Violet Gave Willingly, which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022,[2] and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.[3]
Originally from Texada Island in British Columbia,[1] she studied film at Simon Fraser University. She has directed a number of short films, including Lily (2009), Rheo (2014), What Should Be Heard Not Seen (2018) and Texada (2023).[1]
Her cinematography credits have included the feature documentary film (2021),[4] for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022.[5]