Kevan Funk is a

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film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, '' Hello Destroyer'', was released in 2016."Local filmmaker Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Canadian films"
''

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'', January 10, 2017.

Early life

Originally from

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, he is a graduate of

Emily Carr University of Art and Design Emily Carr University of Art + Design (abbreviated as ECU) is a public art university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The university's campus is located within the Great Northern Way Campus in Strathcona. The university is a co ...

Career

Funk directed several short films, including the

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-listed '' Yellowhead'' (2013) and ''

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'' (2014), before directing his first feature film, '' Hello Destroyer'', which premiered in 2016. The film later garnered four

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nominations at the

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in 2017, including nods for Funk in the Best Director and

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categories, and he won the award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016. At the

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in 2017, Funk won both Best Director and Best Screenplay for the film. In 2017, ''Hello Destroyer'' was nominated for the $100,000

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by the

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. Funk has also directed music videos for

Brasstronaut Brasstronaut was a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with roots in pop, rock and jazz. It was formed in 2007. Their line-up was Bryan Davies on trumpet, Edo Van Breemen on piano and vocals, Sam Davidson on clarinet and EWI, Tariq H ...

Wake Owl Wake Owl is an indie pop band based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon. The band's core members are singer and songwriter Colyn Cameron and multi-instrumentalist Aiden Brant-Briscall. History Following several y ...

The Zolas The Zolas are a Canadian indie rock band based in Vancouver and are signed to Light Organ Records. The band was formed by duo Zachary Gray (vocals/guitar) and Tom Dobrzanski (piano/keyboards/backing vocals), with various session musicians sup ...

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Preoccupations Preoccupations is a Canadian post-punk band from Calgary, Alberta, formed in 2012 under the name Viet Cong. The band consists of Matt Flegel (vocals, bass), Scott Munro (guitar, synth), Daniel Christiansen (guitar) and Mike Wallace (drums). Fleg ...

and

A Tribe Called Red The Halluci Nation, formerly known as A Tribe Called Red, is a Canadian electronic music group who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chant ...

. In 2017, he won a

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as Best Director for A Tribe Called Red's "Stadium Pow Wow", and in 2019 he won the

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's "Low"."The Belle Game's 'Low' wins Prism Prize for top Canadian music video"

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, May 14, 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Funk, Kevan 21st-century Canadian screenwriters Writers from Vancouver Canadian music video directors Film directors from Vancouver Living people Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni Canadian male screenwriters 21st-century Canadian male writers Year of birth missing (living people)