Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, Hello Destroyer, was released in 2016. [1]
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, he is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. [2]
His younger brother, Tyler Funk, is also a filmmaker. [3]
Funk directed several short films, including the Canada's Top Ten-listed Yellowhead (2013) and Bison (2014), before directing his first feature film, Hello Destroyer, which premiered in 2016. [1] The film later garnered four Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including nods for Funk in the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories, [4] and he won the award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016. [5] At the Leo Awards in 2017, Funk won both Best Director and Best Screenplay for the film. [6]
In 2017, Hello Destroyer was nominated for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association. [7]
Funk has also directed music videos for Brasstronaut, Wake Owl, The Zolas, Braids, Preoccupations and A Tribe Called Red. In 2017, he won a MuchMusic Video Award as Best Director for A Tribe Called Red's "Stadium Pow Wow", [8] and in 2019 he won the Prism Prize for The Belle Game's "Low". [9]