Mitchell LeBlanc
writer/director
Mitchell LeBlanc creates high-concept horror, thriller, sci-fi, and Weird films about underdogs fighting the evils hiding beneath everyday life.His feature liminal-cosmic horror The Eviction was selected for the 2024 Tribeca Creators Market. He's an alumnus of the inaugural Rising Voices Canada program (BIPOC TV & Film / Hillman Grad / TIFF), the 2023 Canadian Film Centre's Norman Jewison Film Program, and the 2022 Warner Bros. Discovery x Canadian Academy Writers Program.
Mitch is a professor in the Faculty of Media & Performing Arts at George Brown College and a voting member of the Canadian Academy. He trained at the Second City Conservatory and holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Toronto (better preparation for horror writing than it sounds.)He is currently developing two features and a limited series through his Toronto-based production company, TROLLEY PROBLEM PICTURESRecent credits: NOISE ('24), KOFI ('24), MOTHERS ('23), ATOM (’21), MELODY (’20)
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.