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  • Laurie Lynd

Laurie Lynd is a DGC and Genie award winning writer/director whose film work has been screened at dozens of international film festivals, including SUNDANCE, TIFF and MOMA's New Directors/New Films; his television work has aired on BBC, Sky TV, Logo, Showtime, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, CBC, CTV, CITY, A&E, Discovery and many other networks.

Demo Reels

Compilation Reel

Action Reel

Comedy Reel

Drama Reel

Family Reel

Musical Reel

Film

Killing Patient Zero
Feature Documentary, trailer

Breakfast with Scot
Feature film, trailer

Breakfast with Scot
Feature film, clip 1

Breakfast with Scot
Feature film, clip 2

Breakfast with Scot
Feature film, clip 3

Verona
Trailer/Short

The Fairy Who Didn't
Want To Be A Fairy
Anymore
Short, part 1

The Fairy Who Didn't
Want To Be A Fairy
Anymore
Short, part 2

House
Feature film

TV Movies & Mini-Series

I Was A Rat
Mini-Series, clip 1

I Was A Rat
Mini-Series, clip 2

Open Heart
TV Movie, clip 1

Open Heart
TV Movie, clip 2

Virtual Mom
TV Movie

Episodic

Murdoch Mysteries II
"Big Murder on Campus,"
clip 1

Murdoch Mysteries II
"Big Murder on Campus,"
clip 2

Murdoch Mysteries II
"I, Murdoch"

Murdoch Mysteries III
"Murdoch Identity,"
clip 1

Murdoch Mysteries III
"Murdoch Identity,"
clip 2

Murdoch Mysteries IV
"Dead End Street"

Noah's Arc

Queer As Folk

Degrassi

Docudrama

Ghostly Encounters

Forensic Factor

LAURIE LYND - Director

Management:
Perry Zimel     perry@oazinc.com

Laurie Lynd is a film and television writer/director based in Toronto. Killing Patient Zero, Lynd’s first feature documentary, was a Special Presentation at the 2019 Hot Docs Film Festival. Through interviews with Fran Lebowitz, John Greyson, B. Ruby Rich and others, laurie lynd Killing Patient Zero exposes the homophobia behind the AIDS headlines and clears an innocent man’s name: Gaétan Dugas, aka "Patient Zero."

Lynd's second feature Breakfast With Scot starring Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman premiered at TIFF and in the US at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and has won Audience Favourite Awards at dozens of film festivals. Scot won the 2008 DGC award for Best Family Feature.

House, Lynd's first feature, starred Daniel MacIvor; Lynd also directed the musical shorts The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore (Genie winner for Best Dramatic Short) and RSVP, which features a vocal performance by Jessye Norman, and was named one of 9 iconic queer Canadian films by the CFC in 2018. All three films were selected for both TIFF and SUNDANCE.

Lynd's recent television work includes directing 6 eps of Schitt's Creek Season 5. Previous television directing includes the BBC mini-series I Was A Rat, starring Tom Conti and Academy Award Winner Brenda Fricker; For Love & Honor (Hallmark); Dear Viola (UP TV); Open Heart starring Megan Follows; Virtual Mom starring Debbie Reynolds and Sheila McCarthy, as well as multiple episodes of Hallmark's Good Witch; Shaftesbury's Murdoch Mysteries; Fresh TV's My Babysitter's a Vampire; Breakthrough's The Adventures of Napkin Man; MTV/Logo's Noah's Arc; CTV's Degrassi: The Next Generation and Showtime's Queer As Folk.

Lynd also produced John Greyson’s award-wining short, The Making of ‘Monsters’ which was given an anniversary screening in Berlin in 2019.

Film


KILLING PATIENT ZERO (feature documentary)Fadoo Productions
VERONA (short)Appulse Film
*BREAKFAST WITH SCOTMiracle Pictures/Mongrel Media
** HOUSE (Co-writer/Director)Alliance Atlantis Distribution
TOGETHER & APART (short)Independent
*** RSVP (short)Miracle Pictures
**** THE FAIRY WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BE FAIRY ANYMORE (short)Canadian Film Centre
THE MAKING OF MONSTERS (Producer)John Greyson

* 2008 DGC Award – Best Family Feature Film

** Official Selection, 1996 Sundance; London Film Festival, Tokyo, Toronto International Film Festival and Manheim

*** Official Selection, Sundance; Toronto International Film Fesival

**** Official Selection, Sundance; Toronto International Film Festival
      1993 Genie Award - Best Short Drama
      Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival
      Seattle International Film Festival - Best Short

M.O.W. & Mini-Series


* OPEN HEARTCBC/Barna-Alper Productions
** I WAS A RATBBC/Catalyst Entertainment
VIRTUAL MOMCBC/Catalyst Entertainment
SIBSSienna Films

* 5 Gemini Nominations, including Best Film for Television

** 2002 Silver Sprocket Award, Sprockets International Children's Film Festival (YTV) – Audience Favourite
   2002 Banff World Television Festival Award – Best Children's Program
   2002 Banff Telefilm Award – Best Independent Production
   2002 Gemini Award Nomination
   2002 DGC Award Nominee

TELEVISION

Multiple Episodes:


SCHITT’S CREEK VCBC/Pop TV
THE OTHER KINGDOMDHX Media/Tom Lynch Company
*MURDOCH MYSTERIESCBC/Bravo/Shaftesbury Films
ADVENTURES OF NAPKIN MAN I, II, and III CBC/Breakthrough Entertainment
SWITCH ("The Listener" web series)Smokebomb/Shaftesbury Digital
THE MURDOCH EFFECT ("Murdoch Mysteries" web series)Smokebomb/Shaftesbury Digital
MY BABYSITTER'S A VAMPIREDisney Channel/Fresh TV
*MURDOCH MYSTERIESCity TV/Shaftesbury Films
FORENSIC FACTORDiscovery Channel Canada
NOAH'S ARCLogo/Blueprint Productions
GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS (Lead Director)W Network/Wraith Films
QUEER AS FOLK Showtime/Showcase/Dufferin Gate
DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION CTV/Epitome Pictures
HAUNTED HOUSES I & II A&E

* 2013 Canadian Screen Award Nomination – Best Direction in a Dramatic Series
 2011 DGC Award Nomination – Best Direction, Television Series (for episode #301)

Contact

Management:
Perry Zimel     perry@oazinc.com

Agent:
Stefan Hogan     stefan@oazinc.com

Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates Inc.
438 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 1T4
416.860.1790