Peggy Thompson was an Associate Professor at UBC for over twenty years where she taught screenwriting in the Creative Writing Program.

She is a screenwriter, film producer, story editor and author.

She was recently Executive Producer on Sharon McGowan’s documentary Bearded Ladies; the Photography of Rosamond Norbury which won Best Canadian Documentary at the Female Eye Film Festival.  She was also a Producer on Mo Simpson’s award winning documentary The Least We Can Do.

She was the screenwriter of the feature film The Lotus Eaters, which won three Genie Awards including Best Screenplay and was one of the producers on Saint Monica, which had its international premiere in the Kinderfest Section of the Berlin Film Festival and won the Cultural Expressions Award at the Sarasota Film Festival. She was also the screenwriter of Better than Chocolate, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was theatrically released in the US where it played on over three hundred screens. The film was directed by Anne Wheeler and produced by Sharon McGowan.

She is a recipient of the Woman of the Year Award from Vancouver Women in Film and Television (now Gender Equity in Media Society) and is also an Honorary Lifetime Member.

She has also written books, plays and radio plays.  Most recently an interview she did with Patti Smith was included in the book Patti Smith on Patti Smith, interviews and encounters edited by Aiden Smith and published by Chicago Review Press.

 ”Better Than Chocolate’ is a comic rhapsody to romantic love, the possibility of happily ever after within an all-accepting subculture. For everyone there’s a someone, it insists”. Stephen Holden, The New York Times.

For a complete list of credits please visit peggythompson.ca