Matthew Rankin

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Matthew Rankin (2018)

Matthew Rankin (* 1980 in Winnipeg ) is a Canadian film director , screenwriter and film editor .

Life

Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg in 1980 . He studied at the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal and at Université Laval in Québec . In 2011 Rankin was a participant in the Berlinale Talents . After numerous short films, his first full-length film The Twentieth Century , a largely made-up, bizarre biopic about former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King , who had been prepared all his life to one day become Prime Minister of Canada, was celebrated in September 2019 as part of Toronto International Film Festivals premiered before it hit select Canadian cinemas on December 13, 2019. In February 2020, screenings took place at the Berlin Film Festival , where it was also shown as part of the Teddy Awards , a separate competition.

Filmography

  • 2006: Où est Maurice? (Short film)
  • 2006: Death by Popcorn (short film)
  • 2007: Sharhé Halé-Shakhsi (short film)
  • 2008: Cattle Call (short film)
  • 2008: Hydro-Lévesque (short film)
  • 2010: Negativipeg (short film)
  • 2011: Tabula Rasa (short film)
  • 2014: Mynarski: Death Plummet (short film)
  • 2017: Tesla: World Light (short film)
  • 2019: The Twentieth Century

Awards

Canadian Screen Award

  • 2020: Nomination for Best Director ( The Twentieth Century )
  • 2020: Nomination for Best Original Screenplay (The Twentieth Century)

Glasgow Film Festival

  • 2020: Nomination for the audience award (The Twentieth Century)

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 2020 : Nomination for the Teddy Award for Best Fiction Film (The Twentieth Century)
  • 2020: Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in the Forum section (The Twentieth Century)

Philadelphia Film Festival

  • 2019: Nomination for the Archie Award (The Twentieth Century)

Toronto International Film Festival

  • 2019 : Award for Best Canadian First Feature (The Twentieth Century)

Web links

Commons : Matthew Rankin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/berlinale-forum/programm-forum/hauptprogramm/the-twentieth-century.html
  2. ↑ Etan Vlessing: Toronto: Alex Wolff's 'Castle in the Ground,' Ellen Page Racism Documentary Join Lineup. In: The Hollywood Reporter, July 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Victor Stiff: TIFF Released a Massive List of Titles Screening at This Year's Festival. In: thatshelf.com, August 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Vladan Petkovic: Berlinale announces Forum and Forum Expanded line-ups. In: cineuropa.org, January 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ Films 2020:. In: teddyaward.tv. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  6. ↑ 2020 Awards. In: academy.ca. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  7. ^ Program of the Glasgow Film Festival 2020. In: glasgowfilm.org. Retrieved March 12, 2020 (PDF; 12.1 MB)
  8. ^ The Twentieth Century. In: filmadelphia.org. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rankin, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rankin, Mathew (alternative spelling of the name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film director, screenwriter and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Canada