Lindsay McIntyre (she/her) is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent working primarily with analogue film. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a BFA in Painting + Drawing from the University of Alberta. Her multiple award-winning short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Her films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories.
Having made over 40 short films over the past 20 years, she is stepping up to narrative with her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) which won the 2021 WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K in in-kind supports). She hopes to share authentic stories including from the generations of urban Inuit who have been displaced from Inuit Nunangat. Other upcoming film projects include Tuktuit (Caribou), a experimental doc about caribou made with caribou-based gelatin emulsion, In a Name, an animated documentary web series in development about her uncle Kiviaq, and a SSHRC-funded research and creation project linking land use, art practices, cultural knowledge and resource extraction in the circumpolar north.
Her recent short NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ The South Wind (2023) won Best Short Live Action at imagineNATIVE and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards, the EDA Award for Best Short Film Directed by a Woman at the Whistler Film Festival, Outstanding Short Narrative Film, Cinematography, Production Design and Ensemble Performance at FAVA Fest, and Best Indigenous Film at the Arizona International Film Festival. Other recent projects include an animated documentary for INUA at Qaumajuq, Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut: We Are All Different (2021), which earned a special mention as one of 2021 VIFF’s Best Shorts and was nominated for Best Animation at the American Indian Film Festival, an award-winning short Where We Stand (2015), about the state of analogue film in the digital age, and a monumental projection-mapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery, If These Walls (2019).
She was recently selected as a 2024 FORGE Project Fellow and participated in The Sundance Institute Indigenous Program’s 2024 Native Lab as a Fellow. She was named the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award winner (2021), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton recipient for Excellence in Media Arts by the Canada Council (2013), was honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation, 2017) and her personal documentary Her Silent Life won Best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE (2012). She has been a member of several artist-run film labs including the Double Negative Collective, EMO Collective, Iris Collective, and an international consortium of emulsioneers. She has participated in WIDC’s Story & Leadership program, Women in View’s Five in Focus: Indigenous, The Whistler Screenwriter’s Lab, Banff’s Diversity of Voices, and WIFTV’s Tricksters and Writers. She is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne, LAKE, The Governmental Films of Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as both and Editor and Production Designer.
Her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, BAMPFA’s Alternative Visions, Analogica, WNDX, VIFF, Whistler, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories and she shares her passion for film anywhere else that people will listen.