Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.[1] She 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,[2] and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "Dark Days" music video.[3] She was also a Prism Prize nominee for both "Guilt Trip"[4] and "Dark Days",[5] and has also directed music videos for DZ Deathrays and Jeremy Dutcher.
Levack has been an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Eye Weekly, Toronto Life, SPIN, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
Her debut as a narrative filmmaker, the short film We Forgot to Break Up, premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival,[6] and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.[7]
I Like Movies, Levack's debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[8] Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film.[9]
In November 2023 she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series in production for Crave.[10]
References edit
- ^ Meghan Collie, "Chandler Levack on Her New TIFF Short & the Importance of Telling Trans Stories" Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine. Flare, September 13, 2017.
- ^ "Juno Awards 2015: Avril Lavigne, Nickelback and Kiesza among nominees". Hello! Canada, January 28, 2015.
- ^ "Junos 2016: Complete list of Juno Award nominees". CBC News, February 2, 2016.
- ^ "Prism Prize announces Top 10 best Canadian music videos of 2014" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Vancouver Sun, February 12, 2015.
- ^ Sarah Murphy, "Prism Prize Announces Top 20 Finalists for 2016". Exclaim!, February 9, 2016.
- ^ Jordan Adler, "We Forgot to Break Up premieres at TIFF". Canadian Jewish News, September 5, 2017.
- ^ Craig Takeuchi, "It's a tie for best Canadian feature at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival". The Georgia Straight, December 4, 2017.
- ^ Jeremy Kay, "Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic leads TIFF Midnight Madness; Discovery, Wavelength sections also unveiled". Screen Daily, August 4, 2022.
- ^ Michele Jarvie, "Calgary International Film Festival jury winners announced". Calgary Herald, September 27, 2022.
- ^ "TV & Film News – Chandler Levack makes TV directorial debut with Crave’s ‘My Dead Mom’". Broadcast Dialogue, November 16, 2023.