Kevan Funk

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

Early life

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, he is a graduate of Emily Carr [University of Art and Design].
His younger brother, Tyler Funk, is also a filmmaker.

Career

Funk directed several short films, including the Canada's Top Ten-listed Yellowhead and Bison, before directing his first feature film, Hello Destroyer, which premiered in 2016. The film later garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards">Canadians">Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including nods for Funk in the Canadian [Screen Award for Best Director|Best Director] and Best Original Screenplay categories, and he won the award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver [Film Critics Circle Awards 2016]. At the Leo Awards in 2017, Funk won both Best Director and Best Screenplay for the film.
In 2017, Hello Destroyer was nominated for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
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", and in 2019 he won the Prism Prize for The Belle Game's "Low".