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Chandler Levack
Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, journalist, and filmmaker from Toronto.

Writing Career

Chandler began her career at the University of Toronto, where she studied film at Innis College. After interning at SPIN Magazine in 2007, Chandler was the Editor in Chief of The Varsity Newspaper from 2007 to 2009. She dropped out of university to become a staff writer at the Toronto alt-weekly EYE Weekly in 2010 at the age of 22, primarily covering indie rock and arts and culture.

She has written for publications that include SPIN, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and Maisonneuve Magazine. In 2014, her Maisonneuve cover story "Visions of the Future," about Grimes and the independent Montreal music scene, was nominated for a National Magazine Award. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a Staff Writer and Digital Editor for the Toronto International Film Festival as the editor of a now-defunct newsletter and blog called The Review.

Short Films and Music Videos

Chandler attended the Canadian Film Centre's Writer's Lab in 2012. After graduating, she began directing music videos for the Toronto punk band PUP, including "Reservoir," "Guilt Trip," and "Dark Days." Both "Guilt Trip" and "Dark Days" were nominated for Juno Awards for "Video of the Year" in 2015 and 2016. She has also directed videos for Valery Gore, DZ Deathrays, and Jeremy Dutcher.

In 2017, Chandler co-wrote and directed the short film "We Forgot to Break Up," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The short went on to screen at SXSW, the Maryland Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, OutFest and NewFest, Inside Out, and many other festivals. It won the Canadian ShortWork Prize at the Whistler Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, it was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Feature Films

In 2019, Chandler was the recipient of funding from Telefilm's Talent to Watch program to create her first feature as a writer-director, "I Like Movies." It is a coming of age film about a pretentious teenage cinephile who gets a job at a big corporate video store in his final year of high school. Chandler also received funding from Zapruder Films to write and direct "Anglophone," a romantic comedy set in Mile End, Montreal in the year 2011 about the Montreal music scene and people who do not speak French. In interviews, she has said that Cameron Crowe has been the primary inspiration and influence for her work and career as a music journalist and filmmaker.