Jordan Canning

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Jordan Canning
Born
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
OccupationFilm director
Years active2005 - Present

Jordan Canning is a Canadian director for film and television. She is known for her independent feature films We Were Wolves (2014) and Suck It Up (2017), as well as her work directing on television series Baroness Von Sketch Show, Burden of Truth and Schitt's Creek.

Early life[edit]

She was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She attended Concordia University in Montreal.

Career[edit]

Canning's films have won a number of awards, including two Golden Sheaf Awards,[1][2] three awards at the NSI Online Short Film Festival,[3] and top prize at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival RBC Emerging Filmmaker Competition.[4][5] She directed all twenty-three episodes of the IPF-supported web series Space Riders: Division Earth for CTV. The show won the 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Digital Series and four Canadian Comedy Awards, including Best Director.

Canning's 2014 feature film We Were Wolves made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival[6] and is distributed by Unobstructed View.[7] We Were Wolves stars Peter Mooney and Steve Cochrane. Canning's debut feature was also awarded the Best Feature Prize from the Atlantic Film Festival.[8]

In 2015, Canning was awarded the Women In the Director's Chair Feature Film Award[9] for her second feature film, Suck It Up (2017), which premiered at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival and is distributed by Level Film. Suck it Up stars Grace Glowicki and Erin Carter, and won Best Feature Film at the 2017 B3 Frankfurt Biennale,[10] and Canning was nominated for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award.[11]

In 2016, Canning made a foray into television, directing on Saving Hope and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where she became the first female director on the show. The following year, she directed episodes of the series The Detail (CTV), Burden of Truth (CBC/The CW), and Baroness Von Sketch Show (CBC/IFC).[12] In 2018, she directed on Schitt's Creek, Little Dog (CBC) and season four of Baroness Von Sketch Show.

Canning was nominated for two 2020 Canadian Screen Awards: one for Best Direction, Comedy (Schitt's Creek, "Meet The Parents")[13] and one for Best Direction, Variety or Sketch Comedy (Baroness Von Sketch Show, "Humanity is in An Awkward Stage" - with co-director Aleysa Young).[14]

In 2023. Canning was recognized for her direction of the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Charades", which was listed as one of the ten Best TV Episodes of 2023 by Rolling Stone.[15] Canning's directorial work on "Charades" also garnered her recognition from Indiewire, which ranked the episode #22 on their list of the 25 best TV episodes of 2023,[16] and Vanity Fair, which also listed the episode as one of the best of 2023.[17]

Canning also directed a number of music videos, including:

She is a 2010 graduate of the Director's Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and an alumnus of TIFF Pitch This! and Talent Lab.

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Genre Notes
2005 Pillowtalk Writer, director Short Film
2006 Thick & Thin Writer, director Short Film
2007 Here On In Writer, director Short Film
2008 The House Series - Bedroom, Kitchen, Bathroom Director Short Film Trilogy
2009 Countdown Writer, director Short Film National Screen Institute Drama Prize
2010 Best Served Director Short Film
2010 Not Over Easy Director, Co-Writer Short Animation NSI Short Film Festival Awards
2011 Oliver Bump's Birthday[18] Director Short Film Canadian Film Centre Short Dramatic Film; Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Short Subject
2012 Seconds[19] Writer, director Short Film TIFF RBC Emerging Filmmakers Award[20]
2012 The Tunnel Director Short Film
2014 We Were Wolves Director, Co-Writer Feature Film 2014 Toronto International Film Festival
2015 Space Riders: Division Earth Director Web Series Canadian Screen Award - Best Digital Series
2017 Suck It Up Director Feature Film WIDC Feature Film Award[21]
2017 Ordinary Days Co-Director Feature Film Canadian Film Festival - Best Director
2020 4 North A Co-director, writer Animated short

Television[edit]

Title Role Notes
Saving Hope Director Season 5; one episode
This Hour Has 22 Minutes Director Season 24; four episodes
The Detail Director Season 1; two episodes
Burden of Truth Director Season 1; two episodes
Baroness Von Sketch Show Director Season 3; five episodes

Season 4; five episodes

Schitt's Creek Director Season 5; seven episodes
Little Dog Director Season 2; two episodes
Nurses Director episode #5: "Critical Care"
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Director Season 1; three episodes

Season 2; four episodes

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Director Season 2; one episode

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2012 Golden Sheaf Award Winners" Archived 2013-04-11 at the Wayback Machine. Yorkton Film Festival
  2. ^ "2010 Golden Sheaf Award Winners" Archived 2013-04-11 at the Wayback Machine. Yorkton Film Festival
  3. ^ "Jordan Canning's Not Over Easy wins all three NSI Online Short Film Fest awards". National Screen Institute, September 13, 2012
  4. ^ "RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition Winners 2012" Archived 2013-04-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ "'Salty and sweet' pays off for Jordan Canning" The Telegram, Tara Bradbury September 06, 2012.
  6. ^ Vlessing, Etan (2014-08-06). "Toronto: Film Festival Unveils Canadian Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  7. ^ "Jordan Canning's We Were Wolves gets distribution". Playback Online, October 1, 2014 by Etan Vlessing
  8. ^ Etan Vlessing (October 1, 2014). "Jordan Canning's We Were Wolves gets distribution". Playback. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  9. ^ "Jordan Canning Wins $120,000 Prize: WIDC Feature Film Award Announced". WIDC, March 2, 2015 by Carol Whiteman
  10. ^ "B3 BEN AWARD 2017: Congratulations to the winner!". B3 Biennale. 2017-06-12. Archived from the original on 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  11. ^ Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
  12. ^ "Newfoundland filmmaker becomes first female 22 Minutes director". CBC News. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  13. ^ "Jordan Canning". 18 February 2020.
  14. ^ "Jordan Canning, Aleysa Young". 18 February 2020.
  15. ^ Sepinwall, Alan (2023-12-24). "The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2023". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  16. ^ Steve Greene; Ben Travers; Erin Strecker (2023-11-29). "The 25 Best TV Episodes of 2023". IndieWire. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  17. ^ "The Best TV Shows of 2023". Vanity Fair. 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  18. ^ " Worldwide Short Film Festival 2012". Now Toronto by Norman Wilner June 7, 2012
  19. ^ "Jordan Canning comes back for seconds". The Scope.
  20. ^ "RBC and TIFF Announce Winners of the 2012 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition - RBC". www.rbc.com. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
  21. ^ "Jordan Canning Wins $120,000 Prize: WIDC Feature Film Award Announced". Retrieved 2016-08-23.

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