Lindsay McIntyre

​​Lindsay McIntyre engages filmmaking as a material practice. For over twenty-five years, she has experimented with manipulating the properties of celluloid – including handmaking her own film stock with caribou gelatin – creating a diverse body of films grounded in labour, collaboration and process. Working between documentary, experimental film, expanded cinema, and performance, McIntyre reflects on displacement from Inuit Nunangat, place- and land-based methodologies, Inuit community, and survivance, often in conversation with her family history.

Biography

Lindsay McIntyre is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide. NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023), her recent leap into narrative, garnered her Best Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards. Her related first dramatic feature, The Words We Can’t Speak (in development), won the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and the COUSIN Collective (2022), and teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver.