Gavin Baird is a Métis filmmaker from Canada.[1] He is most noted for his 2025 short film Klee, which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival‘s annual year-end Canada’s Top Ten list for 2025.[2]
From Saskatchewan, he made his feature film debut with The Big Gust in 2018.[3] He subsequently released the feature films Begonia, The Caring Only Cry at Night and A Storm Blows Over.[4]
In 2023 he won the award for Outstanding Feature Film Producer at the Reelworld Film Festival for A Storm Blows Over,[5] and was a recipient of the memorial Jeff Barnaby Grant from the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in 2023 for Klee.[4]
Filmography
- The Option – 2016
- Autumn’s Breeze – 2017
- Four in a Blanket – 2018
- The Big Gust – 2018
- Behind the Windowpane – 2019
- Begonia – 2019
- My Masterpiece – 2020
- The Caring Only Cry at Night – 2020
- Jesus Issues – 2023
- 8th Street Menace – 2024
- A Storm Blows Over – 2023
- Klee – 2025
References
- ^ “KLEE, a locally made seductive alien horror film, kicks off Broadway Fantastic Festival”. Saskatoon Morning, November 21, 2025.
- ^ Jamie Casemore, “TIFF unveils 2025 selections for Canada’s Top Ten features, shorts”. Playback, January 6, 2026.
- ^ “SuperGrid, Beta Test lead Sask. Independent Film Awards nominations”. Regina Leader-Post, November 2, 2018.
- ^ a b Victoria Ahearn, “imagineNATIVE, Netflix reveal Jeff Barnaby Grant recipients”. Playback, May 10, 2023.
- ^ Taimur Sikander Mirza, “With Love and a Major Organ wins $25,000 prize at Reelworld”. Playback, November 14, 2023.
External links
- Gavin Baird at IMDb