

Kate tries to terminate the pregnancy by eating a diet filled with Parsley. The film suggests she may have had a brief affair that led to the pregnancy. The main character, Kate, has been dating Ollie since high school but finds herself unhappy with the relationship. The film is a comedy about a young woman seeking an abortion after accidentally conceiving a child with her boyfriend. Her first feature film Parsley Days (2000), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. These two films won her the Most Promising New Director Award at the 1998 Atlantic Film Festival. That same year, she made a docudrama about a nine-year-old girl suffering from separation anxiety, called Nine (1998). Career ĭorfman's first major film, Swerve (1998), tells the story of a group of friends who embark on a road trip which winds up in an uncomfortable lesbian love triangle.

She graduated from McGill University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She fell in love with filmmaking at 12 years old, when her father gave her a camera.

Early life ĭorfman was born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 29, 1968. Dorfman occasionally teaches classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

She has been creating experimental and dramatic shorts, as well as feature films, since 1995. She lives in Halifax with her boyfriend Dave Hayden, his children Max and Sydney, their two cats and dog. She is currently working on The Playground in collaboration with Jennifer Deyell. She mainly creates short and feature films but also works on mini-documentaries for the Equality Effect, a human rights organization. Dorfman is one of the four co-creators of Blowhard. She directed the Emmy Award films Flawed (2010) and Big Mouth (2012). Andrea Dorfman (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
