Matthew Rankin

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.

Matthew Rankin
Born	5 August 1980
Occupation	Film director
Website	http://www.rankino.com/

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.

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, he studied history at McGill University and Université Laval.

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.

• Le facteur poulpe - 2005
• Où est Maurice? - 2006
• I Dream of Driftwood - 2008
• Sharhé-Halé Shakhsi: M. Rankin - 2008
• Cattle Call - 2008
• Hydro-Lévesque - 2008
• Negativipeg - 2010
• Tabula Rasa - 2012
• Mynarski Death Plummet - 2014
• The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau - 2015
• The Tesla World Light - 2017
• The Twentieth Century - 2019
• Municipal Relaxation Module - 2022
• Universal Language - 2024