Mary Ungerleider has been a filmmaker since 1989.  Her editor/director/writer credits include MANDRAKE: A MAGICAL LIFE, TOFINO: THE ROAD STOPS HERE, TEACHING: MAKING A DIFFERENCE and BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS IN SCHOOLS.  She is best known for her documentary and commercial editing.

Mary participated in the 1998 Resident Editor’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and returned there in 1999 to edit the film DEEP CUT.  She has also travelled to Banff several times to act as editor and Mentor Editor for The Women In the Directors Chair Workshop.  Her recent editorial work includes the short dramatic films THREE LIVES OF KATE, THE LONELY PASSION OF PETAR THE PIG FARMER, and TEARS OF A LOTUS, documentaries and two music videos for singer/songwriter Oh Susanna, which Mary also produced. 

Other editing work of note includes: CHORE WARS: THE BATTLE OVER WHO CLEANS THE TOILET, SOUL COMMUNION, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM SHATNER, and BITTER PARADISE: THE SELLOUT OF EAST TIMOR, which was chosen Best Political Documentary at Hot Docs. In 2000, she won a Leo Award for Best Editing – Picture in a Short Drama for the film A FEELING CALLED GLORY.  She was nominated for a second film, THE REMEMBERER, in the same category. A number of her commercials have won national and international awards.

For several years Mary served on the boards of Moving Images Distribution and Women in Film and Video Vancouver. Her work as president of WIFVV was recognized with a Lifetime Member Award.  Mary is the proud partner of an educator/writer husband (for whom she regularly serves as editor) and the mother of two creative daughters, both working in the entertainment business and both recent mothers themselve