Drew Lint (born 1987) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter,Sarah-Tai Black, "Director Drew Lint on queer cinema, beyond the coming-out melodrama". The Globe and Mail, May 30, 2018. whose debut feature film M/M debuted at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival.Andrew Parker, "Review: M/M". TheGATE.ca, June 3, 2018.
Originally from Dunnville, Ontario, he studied film production at Ryerson University. He directed a number of short films, including Parallel Lines (2008), Collected Memories (2008), Harvest (2009) and Mirrors (2012), before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2013.Peter Knegt, "How Canadian filmmaker Drew Lint is queering the psycho-sexual thriller". CBC Arts, May 24, 2018. His 2014 short film Rough Trade was his international breakthrough, premiering at Slamdance in 2014.Cassandra Szklarski, "Canuck filmmakers prepare to hustle at Sundance and Slamdance film fests" . CKGL, January 14, 2014.
Lint was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018,Connie Thiessen, "DGC’s list of top new Canadian filmmakers to watch". Broadcast Dialogue, September 10, 2018. and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018.
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