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b"Sarah Polley began her career in film at the age of four, appearing in the Disney movie ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS. After her roles in Atom Egoyan\\u2019s THE SWEET HEREAFTER, Terry Gilliam\\u2019s THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN and Doug Liman's GO gained her attention as an emotionally intuitive and intelligent young actor, she attended the Director\\u2019s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre in 2001. Polley\\u2019s first feature AWAY FROM HER, an adaption of the Alice Munro short story \\u201cThe Bear Came over the Mountain,\\u201d which she wrote and directed, nabbed her a nomination for \\u201cBest Adapted Screenplay\\u201d at the 2008 Academy Awards. Her follow-up films, 2011\\u2019s TAKE THIS WALTZ and the 2012 documentary STORIES WE TELL (all of which have premiered at TIFF) have cemented the filmmaker as one of Canada\\u2019s most indelible auteurs. In this episode of TIFF Un/cut, you\\u2019ll hear Sarah Polley interviewed onstage by documentary programmer Thom Powers in a discussion originally conducted for the 2012 Industry Doc Conference when STORIES WE TELL premiered at TIFF. They discuss the knotty complexities of revealing family secrets, how to show many sides of one story, and why documentary is her favourite medium. Sarah Polley\\u2019s newest project, a forthcoming miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood\\u2019s 1996 novel ALIAS GRACE on which she serves as showrunner and executive producer, will premiere at TIFF \\u201817 with the series\\u2019 star Sarah Gadon and director Mary Harron in attendance."