Lindsay McIntyre


Lindsay is a filmmaker and artist of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. She has made over 45 films and received many awards and accolades. Her recent leap into narrative with NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (THE SOUTH WIND) (2023) garnered her Best Short at imagineNATIVE and a chance at the 2025 Oscars. Her related first dramatic feature, THE WORDS WE CAN'T SPEAK (in development) won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K), and has been supported by programs with Women in View: Five in Focus, Women in the Director’s Chair, Sundance, Women in Film + Television, and the Whistler Talent Lab. Her current project, TUKTUIT, is an experimental documentary that considers the intricate interconnection between caribou, lichens, Inuit, and habitat disruption and is made on caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024), Media City (2021) and COUSIN Collective (2022), and she is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver.