Wayne Wapeemukwa is a Canadian film director and screenwriter of Métis descent from Vancouver, British Columbia."The Façade of Settler Patriotism: Wayne Wapeemukwa Talks Luk’Luk’I". Point of View, September 7, 2017. He is most noted for his feature film debut Luk'Luk'I (2017), which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival"Toronto: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Captures Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2017. and the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award.
Education and filmmaking Wapeemukwa participated in his high-school film program and has been influenced and inspired, since childhood, by Chelsea McMullan. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree and is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy and psychoanalysis at the New School for Social Research.
Wapemukwa also works as a public-school teacher and research assistant.
Angel Gates is Wapeemukwa's muse, having first consulted on research for his short films and later starring, and being featured, in four of his documentary films.
His second feature film, Manhunt, is slated to premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival in August 2026, in competition for the Golden Leopard.
Filmography Limp Clown - 2010 Blood Job - 2010 Street Spirit - 2011 Spiritualized - 2011 Foreclosure - 2013 Weeper: Father - 2014 Luk'Luk'I: Mother - 2014 Balmoral Hotel - 2015 Srorrim - 2016 Luk'Luk'I - 2017 Manhunt - 2026
Awards
2015, Balmoral Hotel was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's Canada's Top Ten list for short films."Films from Rozema, Maddin, Falardeau make Canada's Top Ten Film Festival". Canadian Press, December 8, 2015. 2017, Luk'Luk'I, Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film 2017, Luk'Luk'I, Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award
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