Aidan Shipley

Aidan Shipley is a Toronto based actor/filmmaker whose films have screened at TIFF and in competition internationally. Upon graduating from Ryerson University's film program in 2014, his thesis film, Dorsal, was awarded the A&E Short Filmmakers Award for best film by the National Screen Institute and was recently acquired by the CBC. He went on to co-write/direct the short film Boxing, which premiered at TIFF in 2015, followed by his first feature Cardinals, which premiered at TIFF in 2017 and has since screened at a variety of international festivals and cities including New York, Los Angeles & London. More recently he has shot and produced short documentaries for both NBC Left Field and The Marshal Project as well as winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Directing in a Web Series or Program for a virtual reality film titled Deerbrook. In 2018 he produced the feature documentary A Girl Named C, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Currently he is developing his next feature as well as two narrative television series.