Kevan Funk

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Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, Hello Destroyer , was released in 2016. [1]

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Early life

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, he is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. [2]

His younger brother, Tyler Funk, is also a filmmaker. [3]

Career

Funk directed several short films, including the Canada's Top Ten-listed Yellowhead (2013) and Bison (2014), before directing his first feature film, Hello Destroyer , which premiered in 2016. [1] The film later garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including nods for Funk in the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories, [4] and he won the award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016. [5] At the Leo Awards in 2017, Funk won both Best Director and Best Screenplay for the film. [6]

In 2017, Hello Destroyer was nominated for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association. [7]

Funk has also directed music videos for Brasstronaut, Wake Owl, The Zolas, Braids, Preoccupations and A Tribe Called Red. In 2017, he won a MuchMusic Video Award as Best Director for A Tribe Called Red's "Stadium Pow Wow", [8] and in 2019 he won the Prism Prize for The Belle Game's "Low". [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Local filmmaker Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Canadian films". The Georgia Straight , January 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ "B.C.'s Kevan Funk and a mob of inspired young filmmakers are destroying at VIFF". The Georgia Straight , September 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Eric Volmers, "Looped: Banff filmmaker Tyler Funk brings cult character White Ninja to six-second life on Vine". Calgary Herald , January 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Orphan Black, Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience up for Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, January 17, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vancouver Film Critics Circle takes a shine to Hello Destroyer, Manchester by the Sea". Vancouver Courier , January 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Congratulations, Destroyer: Leo Awards share love, laughs, and hometown pride". The Georgia Straight , June 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ "The TFCA names The Florida Project the Best Film of 2017 - Toronto Film Critics Association". Toronto Film Critics Association. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  8. ↑ "Stars power Canada's Much Music Video Awards". Toronto Star , June 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Belle Game's 'Low' wins Prism Prize for top Canadian music video". CBC Music, May 14, 2019.
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