Evan Morgan

Evan Morgan is a Toronto based writer/director with a background in feature-length and short films.

His feature debut The Kid Detective (2020) was acquired and released internationally by Sony with over 850 screens in the US. It was nominated for Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the Canadian Screen Awards 2021, and was cited on numerous year-end lists by critics from The L.A. Times, Vanity Fair, Variety, and The Guardian, among others.

Evan is also the co-writer/producer/editor of The Dirties (2013), a feature-length drama that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, before being released internationally by Kevin Smith, Phase 4, and Pulse Films. It was one of three nominees for Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto Film Critics Awards.

Both of his shorts, The Pedestrian Jar (2011) and A Pretty Funny Story (2012), premiered at TIFF before travelling across North America and Europe. The latter was awarded the Canal Plus Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Additionally, he supplied the screenplay for the animated short Day 40, which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in 2015.