Deanne Foley is a Canadian feature film & TV director and writer. She is best known for the critically acclaimed feature film, An Audience Of Chairs. The film picked up four awards at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival 2018 including Best Director & Best Picture. Her sophomore feature, Relative Happiness, was nominated for Best Picture at the 2015 Directors Guild of Canada Awards, and the Borsos Best Canadian Feature at Whistler Film Festival. Beat Down, her debut feature film, garnered three Canadian Comedy Award nominations including Best Direction. She has directed on CBC's one-hour Republic of Doyle and most recently, she directed the Lifetime MOW Christmas Reservations starring Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina The Teenage Witch) on location in the USA. She is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada & Writers Guild of Canada. Deanne was awarded BMO Artist of the Years by Arts NL in 2015.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Director and writer
- 6 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
What are Deanne Foley's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 4 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 3 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 4 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 3 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Deanne Foley's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Deanne Foley's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.
Heritage Minutes: Gander and 9/11 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Party Pirate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Christmas Reservations(2019)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
The Death of Winter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Radical (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Hudson & Rex(2019)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Hopeless Romantic(2018)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
An Audience of Chairs(2018)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Relative Happiness(2014)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Sadie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Beat Down(2012)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all filmsThe Magnificent Molly McBride (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Diary Found By A Nasty Kid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Smash & Grab: The Rebel Lens of Mike Jones (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 14 titles, 13 of them dated from 1999 to 2026.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Deanne Foley's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 47th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 48th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 6 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the atmosphere 60/100 and the pacing 40/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Deanne Foley work with?
People who share at least 2 of Deanne Foley's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Iain Macleod shares the most, 3.
Writers
- Iain MacleodShared titles: Hopeless Romantic (2018), Relative Happiness (2014), Beat Down (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Iain Macleod
Actors
- Susan KentShared titles: Hopeless Romantic (2018), Relative Happiness (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Susan Kent
- Robb WellsShared titles: Relative Happiness (2014), Beat Down (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Robb Wells
Composers
- Duane AndrewsShared titles: An Audience of Chairs (2018), Hopeless Romantic (2018), Relative Happiness (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Duane Andrews
Producers
- Andrea CooperShared titles: An Audience of Chairs (2018), Relative Happiness (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Andrea Cooper
- Jill Knox-GosseShared titles: An Audience of Chairs (2018), Relative Happiness (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Jill Knox-Gosse
- Lynne WilsonShared titles: An Audience of Chairs (2018), Relative Happiness (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Lynne Wilson
Mixed roles
- Ruth LawrenceShared titles: An Audience of Chairs (2018), Hopeless Romantic (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Ruth Lawrence
