Winston DeGiobbi

Winston DeGiobbi is a Canadian film director from New Waterford, Nova Scotia.[1] He is most noted for his feature debut Mass for Shut-Ins, which was shortlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017,[2] and for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.

He began his filmmaking career with the short film Buggery in 2010, and followed up with the short films Higgy Wants In (2014) and Bright Rubber Cones (2017).[1]

In 2020 he received Telefilm Canada funding for his second film Two Cuckolds Go Swimming.[3] In the same year he repurposed unused footage from the film to make the short body horror film Like a Horse in Quarantine for the Greetings from Isolation project.[4]

  1. ^ a b Solomon Nagler, "The Lingering Taste of Fragmented Narratives; A Conversation with Filmmaker Winston DeGiobbi". Off-Screen, Volume 23, Issue 7 (July 2019).
  2. ^ Regan Reid, "DGC unveils Discovery Award short list". Playback, October 23, 2017.
  3. ^ Kelly Townsend, "Telefilm invests $7M across 20 English-language features". Playback, August 26, 2020.
  4. ^ Norman Wilner, "Canadian directors are making films in self-isolation". Now, May 12, 2020.