Jackie Torrens

Jackie Torrens is a writer, actor, director and documentary filmmaker based in Halifax, NS. Her documentary films for CBC, Documentary Channel, Bravofactual & Vision have played at festivals around the world such as Hot Docs & Clermont & they include Bernie Langille Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langille ("Wonderfully original" - POV Magazine, Documentary), Radical Age, Free Reins, Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown, My Week On Welfare & Edge of East, as well as the scripted short Pickled Punk. Her work has garnered multiple awards including WIFT-AT's Best Director. For 3 seasons Jackie played social worker Drucie MacKay in the OUTtv mini-series Sex and Violence, a role that earned her a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama. She has won an Actra Best Supporting Actress award for her work in the feature film Across the Line. Torrens' radio documentary The Poet Laureate of Youth Now, about a young poet in prison for 2nd degree murder, was given an Atlantic Journalism award. Her radio documentary Camp Mini Ha Ha, about miniaturist artists, received a CBC Award of Excellence. Along with producer Jessica Brown, she owns a production company called Peep Media.