We are pleased to welcome an alumna back to the Cinema Studies Institute as the 2024 Universal Screenwriter in Residence. Chandler Levack is an award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker. In 2017, her short film We Forgot to Break Up premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW. She was nominated for a Prism Prize for her co-direction of the music video for Jeremy Dutcher’s “Mehcinut”. In 2022, her debut feature film I Like Movies premiered at TIFF, was selected for Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival and won prizes around the world. She is currently working on her second feature Anglophone, a casual hang out movie full of ill-advised sex, drugs and rock n' roll in the Montreal music scene circa 2011, with Zapruder Films and Banner House Productions. She completed a Specialist in Cinema Studies in 2011.
As part of her residency, Chandler will teach CIN349H1Y - Screenwriting in 2024/25.