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name: "Matthew Rankin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-rankin"
fi1m_id: "matthew-rankin"
imdb_id: "nm0710277"
tmdb_id: 1291233
wikidata_id: "Q40363636"
roles: []
born: "5 August 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T02:12:21.725047+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Matthew Rankin

## Identity

Matthew Rankin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matthew-rankin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matthew-rankin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0710277
- **TMDB ID:** 1291233
- **Wikidata ID:** Q40363636
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rankin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40363636, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1291233

Director. Born 5 August 1980 in Winnipeg, Canada.

## Details

- **Born:** 5 August 1980, Winnipeg, Canada
- **Also known as:** Мэттью Рэнкин
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rankin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40363636, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710277/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1291233

## Biography

Matthew Rankin is a Canadian film director, writer and actor. Born on 5 August 1980 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he began making short films while associated with the Winnipeg Film Group and later studied history at McGill University and Université Laval.

His feature-length debut, *The Twentieth Century* (2019), was followed by *Universal Language* (2024), for which he also wrote the screenplay. He has directed numerous short films and has appeared as an actor in his own work and in other productions, including the role of Psychologist in *Blue Heron* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blue Heron* (2026), Fi1m 82, as Psychologist — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-heron.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney* (2026), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Momo 3000* (2026), Thanks
- *So Long Pluto* (2026), as Clyde William Tombaugh
- *Blue Heron* (2026), as Psychologist — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-heron.md)
- *Le Tour De Canada* (2025), as Narrator
- *Universal Language* (2024), as Matthew (Massoud) · Director, Screenplay
- *Before I Change My Mind* (2024), as Daniel
- *Federal Owl Commission* (2023), Director
- *Mademoiselle Kenopsia* (2023), as (voice)
- *This House* (2022), as Dr. Densmore
- *You Are in Bear Country 1* (2022), Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
- *You Are in Bear Country 5* (2022), Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
- *A Grief Observed* (2020), as Matthew · Director
- *The Twentieth Century* (2019), Director, Screenplay, Animation, Casting, Editor
- *Wilcox* (2019), Editor
- *A Fortress* (2018), Actor
- *The Tesla World Light* (2017), Animation, Director, Editor
- *This Is an Official Message* (2015), Director
- *The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau* (2015), Writer, Director
- *Mynarski Death Plummet* (2014), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Tabula Rasa* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Kubasa in a Glass: The Fetishised Winnipeg TV Commercial 1976-1992* (2012), Director
- *Laurentia* (2011), Actor
- *Negativipeg* (2010), Director
- *Sinclair* (2010), Camera Operator
- *Hydro-Lévesque* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Barber Gull Rub* (2008), Director, Editor, Director of Photography
- *I Dream of Driftwood* (2008), Director
- *The Phantom of the Cinematheque* (2008), as Narrator
- *Self-Portrait* (2008), Director, Editor
- *Discount Everything* (2008), Director, Editor
- *Où est Maurice?* (2006), Director
- *Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1993)* (2006), Director
- *Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets* (2005), Director
- *The Octopus Factor* (2005), Director
- *Soft Like Me* (1996), Assistant Art Director

## Gallery

- ![Matthew Rankin](https://film.one/media/person/94094/gallery-6487703fc8ee.jpg) Matthew Rankin — Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Matthew_Rankin_%28cin%C3%A9aste%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Matthew_Rankin_%28cin%C3%A9aste%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Portrait of film director Matthew Rankin, shot at the Cinémathèque québécoise during a Wikipedia evening on his work. The background was chosen by Mr. Rankin. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/94094/gallery-57bed4666065.jpg) Portrait of film director Matthew Rankin, shot at the Cinémathèque québécoise during a Wikipedia evening on his work. The background was chosen by Mr. Rankin. (2018) — Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Matthew_Rankin_%28cin%C3%A9aste%29.jpg/1280px-Matthew_Rankin_%28cin%C3%A9aste%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Direction 2025: Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Direction (won), for *Universal Language*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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