Dorothy A. Atabong is an award winning Director, Writer, Producer, and Actor based in Toronto. Her short film Sound Of Tears, screened at over 45 film festivals worldwide. It garnered multiple awards and nominations including The Africa Movie Academy Award, Court-métrage de fiction, Burundi, Best Film and Best Director Nominations for the Golden Sheaf Award, Ousmane Sembene Award – Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at The Pan African Film Festival in LA and Cannes. Her recent film Eye of the Veil made with the support of the Art Councils is in post-production.

She’s an alumna of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC). Dorothy directed the CBC’s critically acclaimed 21 Black Futures – Season 3 - YEn Ara Asaase Ni/This Is Our Own Native Land and is the winner of the 2020 Cayle Chernin Award. Her feature script, Zenzile’s Journey is currently in development in partnership with Telefilm Canada. She is currently mentored by two-time Oscar nominated Director Atom Egoyan.

Dorothy was also selected for the 2022 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative and will be attending the Banff World Media Festival in June. She was also selected as one of the CaribbeanTales Black Incubator and Studio Access Project participants and will be directing a film this summer. Dorothy is passionate about creating accurate and clear representations of the experiences of three-dimensional black women in stories both tragic and glorifying.