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Chandler Levack
Canadian journalist and filmmaker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, director, and filmmaker.[1]
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Levack is best known for her work as an entertainment writer, and for her feature film directorial debut, I Like Movies, which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.[2][3][4]
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Early life
Levack was born in Toronto and raised in Brantford, Ontario.[5] In 2004, Levack returned to live in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.[5]
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Levack dropped out of her cinema studies courses at the University of Toronto to pursue a career as a writer.[6] Since then, she has worked an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Toronto Life, SPIN, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
Levack is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux at the Juno Awards of 2015 for directing PUP's "Guilt Trip" music video,[7] and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "Dark Days" music video.[8]
She was a Prism Prize nominee for both "Guilt Trip"[9] and "Dark Days",[10] and has also directed music videos for DZ Deathrays and Jeremy Dutcher.
Matthew Miller's production company Zapruder Films (which he co-founded with Matt Johnson), launched a contest in 2016 to back a first-time female screenwriter with $12,000 in funding, story editor guidance, and script optioning; Levack and her feature film Anglophone were announced as the winners from 137 entries.[11]
Her debut as a narrative filmmaker, the short film We Forgot to Break Up, premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival,[12] and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.[13]
Levak later studied screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre.[14]
I Like Movies
I Like Movies, Levack's debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,[2] and received widespread acclaim.[3] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10.[3] The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[15]
Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film.[16]
In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.[4]
My Dead Mom and Mile End Kicks
In November 2023, she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series which premiered in 2024 on Crave.[17]
In 2024, it was announced that Levack's second feature, Mile End Kicks (retitled from Anglophone), would star Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy.[18] The film's screenplay is "based on her own experiences as a young female music critic."[19] The film is scheduled to premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.[20]
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