Aidan Shipley

Aidan Shipley is a Toronto-based filmmaker/writer/actor who graduated 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 subsequently acquired by CBC. He co-wrote/directed 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 including New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City & London. In 2018, he won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Directing in a Web Series for the virtual reality short film Deerbrook. He then went on to produce the feature documentary, A Girl Named C, executive produced by Sophia Bush, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Best Feature Documentary at The Big Apple Film Festival. In 2020, he joined the Directors Guild of Canada as a director. His latest project was directing a new VR Immersive experience titled The Basement which won the 2024 SXSW Audience Choice Award. He is currently in development and writing the feature film, Let Me Help You and is developing and co-writing a television series titled Rent Me alongside Amanda Brugel.