Mitchell LeBlanc
writer/director
Mitch is a writer/director based in Toronto who loves horror, thriller, sci-fi, and The Weird.His feature project The Eviction was selected for the 2024 Tribeca Creators Market. Mitch participated in the inaugural 2024 Rising Voices Canada program, a career accelerator from BIPOC TV & Film, Indeed, Hillman Grad, and TIFF. He's also an alumnus of the 2023 Canadian Film Centre's Norman Jewison Film Program and the 2022 Warner Brothers Discovery x Canadian Academy Writers Program.Mitch loves to tell stories about underdogs fighting the evils lurking beneath everyday life. He enjoys cracking characters open to find the grit, love, fear, and strangeness that makes them endure in a world that’s bizarrely unfair.
Mitch holds a Hons. BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, a diploma in Comedy Writing & Performance from Humber College, a post-grad certificate in Screenwriting & Narrative Design from George Brown College, and a piece of paper for graduating from the Second City Conservatory.He’s also a professor in the Faculty of Media & Performing Arts at George Brown College and a voting member of the Canadian Academy.When asked about moving between comedy and horror, Mitch loves to say stuff like “laughs and screams are both involuntary reactions to great storytelling.”In his downtime, he can be found introducing non-cinephiles to his favourite Criterion films.Mitch is currently developing three feature films and a couple of series.Recent credits: NOISE ('24), KOFI ('24), MOTHERS ('23), ATOM (’21), MELODY (’20)TROLLEY PROBLEM PICTURES
Mitchell LeBlanc
Mitchell LeBlanc
NOISE (soon)
Dance/Experimental | 10-mins | writer/director
A mime spirals into madness while procrastinating a task.
KOFI (2024)
Thriller | 6 mins | writer | dir. Marianna Phung
On his daughter's birthday, a family man receives a surprise visit from an old friend, from an old life.
MOTHERS (2023)
Drama/Coming of Age | 5 mins | writer/director
*A thrilling excerpt from my feature MOTHERS, a true story about my childhood.
A retired Black exotic dancer and a young white sex worker raise a mischievous child amid the everyday struggles of poverty in 1990’s Toronto — facing heartbreak with humour in this story about survival on society’s margins.
ATOM (2021)
Sci-fi/Thriller | 9 mins | writer | dir. Brandon Caruso
*proof of conceptAfter a systems failure, a couple with a secret boards a derelict spaceship and meet its only resident: a lonely maintenance robot with no intention of being alone again.
MELODY (2020)
Weird/Horror? | 15 mins | writer/directorA musician struggles to finish her song when visited by a stranger.