Laurie Lynd

Who is Laurie Lynd?

Laurie Lynd is a Canadian film and television director, best known as the director of the feature film, Breakfast with Scot.

Breakfast with Scot, Lynd's second feature, starring Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival [TIFF] and in the US at The Museum of Modern Art. It won numerous Audience Favorite Awards. Breakfast with Scot is distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media, in the US by Regent Releasing/Here Films and internationally by Seville. Breakfast With Scot won the 2008 DGC award for Best Family Feature.

House, Lynd's first feature, stars Daniel MacIvor; Lynd also directed the musical shorts, The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore, and RSVP, which features a vocal performance by Jessye Norman. All three films were selected for both TIFF and Sundance Film Festival.

Lynd also produced John Greyson's award-winning short, The Making of "Monsters".

Lynd's television work includes directing the BBC mini-series I Was A Rat, starring Academy Award Winner Brenda Fricker and Tom Conti, which was selected as the opening night film for the Sprockets International Children's Film Festival, winning the YTV Silver Sprocket award as well as Best Children's Program at the Banff International Television Festival; MOWS's Open Heart starring Megan Follows and Virtual Mom, starring Debbie Reynolds and Sheila McCarthy. Lynd's most recent MOW is for eOne/Up TV: Dear Viola, starring Kellie Martin.