Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk artist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC, who works primarily with analogue film, exploring place-based knowledge, portraiture and personal histories. She employs process cinema techniques, material and celluloid manipulation and handmade emulsion to her autoethnographic works, which often extend to live expanded cinema performances on 16mm projectors.
She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal, QC (2010), a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta (2001), and since 1999, she has made over 45 films and received many awards and accolades. She creates authentic stories with a focus on the generations of urban Inuit who have been displaced from Inuit Nunangat, and many of her films navigate a deep but fractured connection to her personal and family history in Nunavut. She received the Best Live Action Short Award at imagineNATIVE and a qualification for the 2025 Oscars for her short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023), which is based on a true story and follows an Inuk mother and her daughter as they adapt to a new life after relocating to the south from Nunavut in the 1930s. Her related first dramatic feature, The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) won the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Feature Film Award ($250K in-kind, in support of production) and has been supported by programs such as Women in View: Five in Focus, WIDC, Sundance, Women in Film + Television, and the Whistler Talent Lab. Tuktuit: Caribou (2025), is a place-based experimental documentary that considers the intimate connections between caribou, lichens and Inuit in the face of habitat disruption, and is made partly with caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion on 16mm film and processed with developers made from lichens.
In addition to her filmmaking practice, McIntyre has participated in several fellowships, including the Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and the COUSIN Collective (2022). She is a member of Iris Film Collective and the international artist-run film labs community. She is a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts, awarded by the Canada Council in 2013, and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation) in 2017. Her short films and expanded cinema performances have been presented around the world, including at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC; Prismatic Ground in New York, New York; Berkley Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Alternative Visions in California; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany; and Aulajut Nunavut International Film Festival in Iqaluit, NU. She has been teaching as an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design since 2017.