Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk artist and filmmaker who works primarily with analogue film exploring place-based knowledge, portraiture, and personal histories. She employs process cinema techniques, material and celluloid manipulation, and handmade emulsion to her autoethnographic explorations, which often extend to expanded cinema performances. She is a fellow of Forge Project (2024), Sundance (2024), MacDowell (2026), and COUSIN Collective (2021) and she has been supported by WIDC’s Story & Leadership program, Women in View’s Five in Focus: Indigenous, The Whistler Talent Labs, and WIFTV’s Tricksters & Writers.
Her most recent project Tuktuit : Caribou (2025), an experimental documentary that considers the close and enduring connections between caribou, lichens, Inuit, and habitat disruption and is made on caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion. It won Best Short Documentary at the 2026 DOXA Film Festival and has been featured at Prismatic Ground, the Sundance Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, RIDM, Hotdocs, and Criterion. Having made over 45 shorts over the past 20 years, she is stepping up to features with the drama The Words We Can’t Speak (based on a true story, in development) which won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K). Her related short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ The South Wind (2023) won Best Short Live Action at imagineNATIVE and a Qualification for the 2025 Academy Awards, the EDA Award for Best Short Film Directed by a Woman at the Whistler Film Festival, Outstanding Short Narrative Film, Outstanding Cinematography, Outstanding Production Design and Outstanding Ensemble Performance at FAVA Fest, and Best Indigenous Film at the Arizona International Film Festival.
Other past projects include her 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, and her experimental documentary Her Silent Life (2013) won Best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE. She is also known for her work with artisanal handmade emulsion including in the award-winning short Where We Stand (2015), about the state of analogue film in the digital age. Lindsay is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette, LAKE by Alexandra Lazarowich, The Governmental Films of Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as both an Editor and Production Designer.
She is a member of Iris Film Collective, and is active in the international artist-run labs community. She is a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts (Canada Council), the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation), and her films have received many awards and accolades. Her work has been seen around the world including at BAMPFA’s Alternative Visions, Analogica, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor, Prismatic Ground, Pleasure Dome, Hot Docs, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University, is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and is also the Executive Director of the Inuit Art Foundation and the Publisher of Inuit Art Quarterly. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories in North Vancouver.