Matthew Rankin

Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill and Université Laval. Matthew is the director of some forty films which have been presented at prestigious international film festivals. His first feature, The Twentieth Century, was awarded the 2020 FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and proclaimed Best Canadian First Feature at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. He is not entirely certain where he lives but is frequently spotted in Montréal.