Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. She has made over 45 films and received manyawards 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, on view at the Contemporary Art Gallery through September 2025, is an experimental documentary that considers the intricate interconnections 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 the COUSIN Collective (2022), and she teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver.

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