Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, director, and filmmaker.[1] Levack has been an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Eye Weekly, Toronto Life, SPIN, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
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.
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] and received widespread acclaim. 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.[9] Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film.[10] The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.[11] In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.[12]
In November 2023, she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series in production for Crave.[13]
Matthew Miller's production company Zapruder Films (which he co-founded with Matt Johnson), launched a contest to back a first-time female screenwriter with $12,000 CAD in funding, story editor guidance, and script optioning; Levack and her feature film Anglophone were announced as the winners from 137 entries.[14]