Evan Morgan (filmmaker)

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Evan Morgan is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. [1] He is most noted for his 2020 film The Kid Detective , for which he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. [2]

Morgan was previously credited as a writer and producer of Matt Johnson's 2013 film The Dirties , [3] and as writer of Sol Friedman's 2014 animated short Day 40 . [4] He wrote and directed the short films The Pedestrian Jar (2011) and A Pretty Funny Story (2012), and directed July Talk's music video for "The Garden". [5]

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