Film.TV.Writer.Director.
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
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, 
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 SCOT | Miracle 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 HEART | CBC/Barna-Alper Productions | |
| ** I WAS A RAT | BBC/Catalyst Entertainment | |
| VIRTUAL MOM | CBC/Catalyst Entertainment | |
| SIBS | Sienna 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 V | CBC/Pop TV | |
| THE OTHER KINGDOM | DHX Media/Tom Lynch Company | |
| *MURDOCH MYSTERIES | CBC/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 VAMPIRE | Disney Channel/Fresh TV | |
| *MURDOCH MYSTERIES | City TV/Shaftesbury Films | |
| FORENSIC FACTOR | Discovery Channel Canada | |
| NOAH'S ARC | Logo/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