Chandler Levack

Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, director, and filmmaker.
Levack is best known for her work as an entertainment writer, and for her feature film directorial debut, I Like Movies, which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Early life

Levack was born in Toronto and raised in Brantford, Ontario. In 2004, Levack returned to live in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood.

Levack dropped out of her cinema studies courses at the University of Toronto to pursue a career as a writer. Since then, she has worked as an arts and entertainment writer for publications including Toronto Life, SPIN, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
Levack 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, and at the Juno Awards of 2016 for directing PUP's "Dark Days" music video.
She was a Prism Prize nominee for both "Guilt Trip" and "Dark Days", and has also directed music videos for DZ Deathrays and Jeremy Dutcher.
Matthew Miller's production company Zapruder Films, launched a contest in 2016 to back a first-time female screenwriter with $12,000 in funding, story editor guidance, and script optioning; Levack and her feature film Anglophone were announced as the winners from 137 entries.
Her debut as a narrative filmmaker, the short film We Forgot to Break Up, premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.
Levak later studied screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre.

I Like Movies, Levack's debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and received widespread acclaim. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022.
Levack won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival for the film.
In 2023, Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail named the film as one of the 23 best Canadian comedy films ever made.

In November 2023, she was announced as the director of My Dead Mom, a short-form comedy series which premiered in 2024 on Crave.
In 2024, it was announced that Levack's second feature, Mile End Kicks, would star Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Stanley Simons, and Juliette Gariépy. The film's screenplay is "based on her own experiences as a young female music critic." The film is scheduled to premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2025, she directed the Netflix film Roommates for Happy Madison Productions.

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result	Refs
2022	Calgary International Film Festival	$10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award	I Like Movies	Won
2022	Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2022	Best Canadian Film	I Like Movies	Won
2022	Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2022	Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film	I Like Movies	Won