{"id":402768,"date":"2026-01-09T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/?p=402768"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:02:08","slug":"tiff-positions-york-u-filmmakers-among-canadas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2026\/01\/09\/tiff-positions-york-u-filmmakers-among-canadas-best\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF positions 快播视频 filmmakers among Canada\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Members of 快播视频\u2019s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design<\/a> frequently appear on the annual list, reflecting the creative impact of York graduates and their status among Canada\u2019s top filmmaking talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, four former and current AMPD students were recognized for their feature-length or short films.<\/p>\n\n\n Since completing her MFA at York, writer-director Romvari has gained international recognition for her short films. Blue Heron<\/em>, her first feature-length movie, explores the internal dynamics of a family of six on Vancouver Island through the perspective of its youngest member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After premiering in Fall 2025, Blue Heron<\/em> won the Swatch First Feature Award at the 78th Locarno Film Festival and was named Best Canadian Discovery at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnson has become one of Canada\u2019s most prominent filmmakers, most recently earning international acclaim and multiple Canadian Screen Awards for the film BlackBerry<\/em>. His latest feature-length directorial effort, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie<\/em>, adapts the cult television and web series he co-created with longtime collaborator and fellow AMPD alum Matthew Miller<\/strong> (BFA \u201903, MFA \u201916).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before being named to the Canada's Top Ten, the film was the recipient of the TIFF \u201925 People\u2019s Choice Midnight Madness Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edralin is an award-winning Canadian director whose previous short films include Hole<\/em>, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short, and Emma<\/em>, which was named to TIFF\u2019s Canada\u2019s Top Ten list in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His latest short film, La Mayordom\u00eda,<\/em> premiered at the 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Short Films. The film documents a Mexican ritual where families are chosen to care for baby Jesus figures \u2013 some dating back to the 16th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born as an archival initiative while Chan was a graduate student at York, the short film Lloyd Wong, Unfinished <\/em>tells the story of a Chinese-Canadian artist who documented his life living with HIV in early 1990s Toronto but died before completing the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When the lost footage was found around 2020, Chan brought the unfinished work to life through her short film, which has received several additional recognitions<\/a>, including the prestigious\u00a0Teddy Award for Best Short Film\u00a0and the\u00a0Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSophy Romvari (MFA \u201920), Blue Heron<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMatt Johnson (BFA \u201906, MFA \u201916), Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMartin Edralin (current MFA student), La Mayordom\u00eda<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nLesley Loksi Chan (BFA \u201908, MFA \u201918), Lloyd Wong, Unfinished<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n