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Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. [1] She is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Video of the Year, receiving nominations alongside Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux at the Juno Awards of 2015 for directing PUP's "Guilt Trip" music video, [2] and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "Dark Days" music video. [3] She was also a Prism Prize nominee for both "Guilt Trip" [4] and "Dark Days", [5] and has also directed music videos for DZ Deathrays and Jeremy Dutcher.

Levack has been an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Eye Weekly , Toronto Life , SPIN , The Globe and Mail , and the Toronto Star .

Her debut as a narrative filmmaker, the short film We Forgot to Break Up , premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, [6] and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival. [7]

I Like Movies , Levack's debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. [8] Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film. [9]

In November 2023 she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series in production for Crave. [10]

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