Tyler Funk (born February 14, 1988) is a Canadian filmmaker.Eric Volmers, "Looped: Banff filmmaker Tyler Funk brings cult character White Ninja to six-second life on Vine". Calgary Herald, January 17, 2016. He is most noted for his 2023 documentary film Anything for Fame,Matthew Thompson, "Banff-raised filmmakers dive into minds of influencers". Rocky Mountain Outlook, November 3, 2023. for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best British Columbia Director at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2023.Taimur Sikander Mirza, "BlackBerry, Seagrass lead VFCC’s Canadian nominees". Playback, January 23, 2024.
The younger brother of filmmaker Kevan Funk, he was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up principally in Banff, Alberta. He subsequently moved back to Vancouver to study filmmaking at Langara College and the University of British Columbia.Demian Vernieri, "'A Day in the Life' with Vancouver-based Filmmaker Tyler Funk". Vancouver Guardian, November 8, 2023. He directed a number of short films and television episodes in the 2010s, first becoming well known for his White Ninja series of short animated films on Vine.
Anything for Fame, a film about the extremes that people will go to achieve viral fame on the internet, was released by the National Film Board of Canada in 2023.Dana Gee, "Famous toilet seat licker Ava Louise one of the stars in B.C. director's doc on Internet fame". Vancouver Sun, November 9, 2023.
He is a partner with Sebastian Mercado in the Vancouver-based independent film studio North of Now.
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