Kim Albright is a Canadian film director based in Vancouver, British Columbia,[1] whose debut feature film With Love and a Major Organ was released in 2023.[2]
Originally from Westmount, Quebec,[1] she was educated at McGill University and in Edinburgh, remaining in the United Kingdom for most of the 2000s and 2010s as a director of commercials and music videos before returning to Canada in 2017.[1] In her early career she also directed a number of short films, including Dragonfly (2007), Edward's Turmoil (2009), Albatross (2010), The Purple Plain (2016), The Director (2018) and Bring Out Your Dead (2019).
She did a residency at the Canadian Film Centre in 2018, during which she met playwright Julia Lederer and began to collaborate on a film adaptation of Lederer's stage play With Love and a Major Organ.[3] In 2020 she won two awards from Women in the Directors Chair for the screenplay treatment.[3]
The film went into production in early 2022,[4] and premiered in March 2023 at the South by Southwest festival,[5] followed by its Canadian premiere in July at the Fantasia Film Festival.[6]
The film was named to the initial longlist for the 2023 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award,[7] and won awards for Best Film at the 2023 Reelworld Film Festival,[8] and the 2024 Canadian Film Festival.[9]