Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin (born August 5, 1980; Winnipeg) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. He is most noted for his feature-length debut, The Twentieth Century, which premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three. He has also received accolades for his 2014 film Mynarski Death Plummet, which was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards and a shortlisted Jutra Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 17th Jutra Awards, and his 2017 film The Tesla World Light, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards and received an Honourable Mention for the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. He has also had occasional small acting roles in other directors' films, most recently the 2022 films This House (Cette maison) and Before I Change My Mind.
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as Matthew (Massoud)Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep...
Movie pageBefore I Change My Mind
as Daniel1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a...
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as (voice)Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous...
Movie pageThis House
as Dr. DensmoreBridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything...
Movie pageThis Is an Official Message
as HimselfIn the idealism and mutation of his home town of Winnipeg, the filmmaker Matthew Rankin launches...
Movie pageA Grief Observed
as MatthewMatthew spends Mother’s Day in his mom’s house slowly deleting her voicemails.
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as uncreditedAfter the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti. There, they meet with a DNA...
Movie pageThe Phantom of the Cinematheque
as NarratorOn the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of...
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