Austin Birtch
Directing
Known For

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
BlackBerry

The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.
In a Violent Nature

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Dead Lover

Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
PG: Psycho Goreman

At the end of a tangled relation- ship, Myra and Percy begin to feel the anxiety of the everyday creep in.
Halifax Pier

Hope has always been close to her daughter Lacy. But since her divorce from her husband, Hope has been worried about Lacy, who is struggling to cope. So Hope is excited when Lacy brings home a new friend, Cassie, whose parents recently divorced as well. Lacy and Cassie quickly become the best of friends. But when Cassie begins to drive a wedge between Lacy and her mother, Hope beings to wonder if Cassie is the godsend she first imagined.
Friends Who Kill

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story reveals the extraordinary rise, sudden disappearance, and resurgence of trailblazing Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane.
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
A Vietnam War deserter returns to Point Pleasant, West Virginia after a tragic bridge collapse, hoping to help his estranged sister find their missing father— only to be pulled into a vast and insidious conspiracy surrounding a red-eyed, winged creature haunting the town.
Mystery of the Mothman

With the integrity of his profession being questioned more and more, a paranormal investigator makes one last attempt to find what he's looking for.
Ghosts Do Not Exist

Toronto, 1989. Five years ago Leslie and Reuben were inseparable best friends - until a toxic party lifestyle tore their friendship apart. Now, when their city is overrun by a deadly new drug epidemic and Reuben's kid brother is kidnapped, that same lifestyle is their only shot at staying alive.
Going In

When a shoplifter gets caught, the supervisor doles out a punishment that will change Nate forever.
Strip Mall

Point Pleasent, West Virginia, December 1966: Sally recounts her terrifying encounter with the Mothman to the mysterious Indrid Cold. Inspired by the Mothman/Indrid Cold myth that took place in Point Pleasant, West Virginia from 1966-1967.
Memories of the Mothman

A tired young man spends the night performing menial office tasks to try to understand the reason for his insomnia.
SLEEP TALKING

A backpacker takes a job as a cat sitter, but soon discovers there is something sinister about this furry feline.
Paws

A judgemental woman's encounter with an iconic Halloween decoration forever changes her relationship with the holiday. A low-fi, mixed media, horror-comedy all about the classic movie monster inside all of us.
Giant Skeleton

After being dumped, a Toronto man subleases his apartment for an hour or two at a time to make rent as a 'community space.'
Toronto Apartment

An unemployed man tries to become the poet laureate of his hometown, a small Canadian town in the middle of nowhere.
Poet Laureate

A lunch meeting between a client and an insurance agent takes a grim turn.