Chandler Levack

Levack was born in Toronto and raised in Brantford, Ontario.^[5] In 2004, Levack returned to live in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.^[5]

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Levack dropped out of her cinema studies courses at the University of Toronto to pursue a career as a writer.^[6] Since then, she has worked as an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Toronto Life, SPIN, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.

Levack 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,^[7] and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "Dark Days" music video.^[8]

She was a Prism Prize nominee for both "Guilt Trip"^[9] and "Dark Days",^[10] and has also directed music videos for DZ Deathrays and Jeremy Dutcher.

Matthew Miller's production company Zapruder Films (which he co-founded with Matt Johnson), launched a contest in 2016 to back a first-time female screenwriter with $12,000 in funding, story editor guidance, and script optioning; Levack and her feature film Anglophone were announced as the winner from 137 entries.^[11]

Her debut as a narrative filmmaker, the short film We Forgot to Break Up, premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival,^[12] and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.^[13]

Levak later studied screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre.^[14]

I Like Movies, Levack's debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,^[2] and received widespread acclaim.^[3] 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.^[3] The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.^[15]

Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film.^[16]

In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.^[4]

In November 2023, she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series which premiered in 2024 on Crave.^[17]

In 2024, it was announced that Levack's second feature, Mile End Kicks (retitled from Anglophone), would star Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy.^[18] The film is based on Levack's experiences as a young female music critic.^[19] The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.^[20]

Her third feature film as a director was the Netflix film Roommates for Happy Madison Productions, which was released in April 2026.^[21][22]

Film

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Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2017	We Forgot to Break Up	Yes	Yes	No	Short film
2022	I Like Movies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Feature-length directorial debut
2025	Mile End Kicks	Yes	Yes	No
2026	Roommates	Yes	No	No

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Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2024	My Dead Mom	Yes	No	No

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