Kevan Funk

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

Early life

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

Career

Funk directed several short films before directing his first feature film in 2015, 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,[3] and he won the award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016.[4] At the Leo Awards in 2017, Funk won both Best Director and Best Screenplay for the film.[5]

In 2017, Hello Destroyer was nominated for the $100,000 prize for best Canadian film of the year by the Toronto Film Critics Association.[6]

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",[7] and in 2019 he won the Prism Prize for The Belle Game's "Low".[8]

References

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