Matthew Rankin is a
Canadian
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experimental filmmaker. He is most noted for his 2014 film ''
Mynarski Death Plummet'', which was a shortlisted
Canadian Screen Award
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nominee for
Best Live Action Short Drama at the
4th Canadian Screen Awards and a shortlisted
Jutra Award nominee for Best Short Film at the
17th Jutra Awards, and his 2017 film ''
The Tesla World Light'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for
Best Animated Short
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at the
6th Canadian Screen Awards and received an Honourable Mention for the
at the
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
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.
His feature-length debut, ''
The Twentieth Century
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'', premiered in 2019.
"Le premier long métrage de Matthew Rankin au FNC"
'' La Presse'', July 29, 2019.
Originally from Winnipeg
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, Manitoba
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, he studied history at McGill University
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and Université Laval
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.
He has also had occasional small acting roles in other directors' films, most recently the 2022 films '' This House (Cette maison)'' and '' Before I Change My Mind''.
Filmography
*''Le facteur poulpe'' - 2005
*''Où est Maurice?'' - 2006
*''I Dream of Driftwood'' - 2008
*''Sharhé-Halé Shakhsi: M. Rankin'' - 2008
*''Cattle Call'' - 2008
*''Hydro-Lévesque'' - 2008
*''Negativipeg'' - 2010
*''Tabula Rasa'' - 2012
*'' Mynarski Death Plummet'' - 2014
*''The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau'' - 2015
*'' The Tesla World Light'' - 2017
*''The Twentieth Century
''The Twentieth Century'' was a documentary television program sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company that ran on the CBS network from 20 October 1957 until 4 January 1970. It was hosted by Walter Cronkite. The opening and closing theme ...
'' - 2019
*'' Municipal Relaxation Module'' - 2022
References
External links
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Canadian animated film directors
Canadian experimental filmmakers
Film directors from Winnipeg
McGill University alumni
Université Laval alumni
Living people
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Animated Short
Year of birth missing (living people)
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