Drew Lint

Drew Lint (born 1987) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film M/M debuted at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival.[2]

Originally from Dunnville, Ontario, he studied film production at Ryerson University. He directed a number of short films, including Parallel Lines (2008), Collected Memories (2008), Harvest (2009) and Mirrors (2012), before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2013.[3] His 2014 short film Rough Trade was his international breakthrough, premiering at Slamdance in 2014.[4]

Lint was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018,[5] and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018.

  1. ^ Sarah-Tai Black, "Director Drew Lint on queer cinema, beyond the coming-out melodrama". The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2018.
  2. ^ Andrew Parker, "Review: M/M". TheGATE.ca, June 3, 2018.
  3. ^ Peter Knegt, "How Canadian filmmaker Drew Lint is queering the psycho-sexual thriller". CBC Arts, May 24, 2018.
  4. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "Canuck filmmakers prepare to hustle at Sundance and Slamdance film fests" Archived 2019-10-27 at the Wayback Machine. CKGL, January 14, 2014.
  5. ^ Connie Thiessen, "DGC’s list of top new Canadian filmmakers to watch". Broadcast Dialogue, September 10, 2018.