Glenn Forbes(II)

Glenn Forbes is a Toronto-based screenwriter. He wrote and directed the sci-fi thriller, Amplifier and was awarded the $100,000 OMDC Al Waxman Calling Card grant and the Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival screenplay award for his comedy film Masterpiece Monday. He is a former winner of the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Best out of over 4000 entries) for his comedy screenplay Head First Face Down. In 2012, he was awarded a Telefilm Canada New Voices/Golden Quill Award as one of the top emerging screenwriters in Canada. His sci-fi thriller The Wreckage placed on the 2014 Blood List. (First place winner, along with Netflix's Bird Box, of the Search for New Blood) -- a list of the top unproduced dark-genre screenplays of a calendar year, voted on by over 100 Hollywood executives. In 2020, he was named a semi-finalist for The Future Prime (top 150 scripts out of almost 8000 entries) in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Recently, he has completed several feature film work-for-hires; the slasher film Burning Lake for 2019 BAFTA Best Picture nominee's, Misfits Entertainment; An adaptation of Desmond Fosberry's novel The Man Who Forgot for Voyage Media in Los Angeles, and an adaptation of Bill Scott's memoir The Day Satan Called for Third Culture Films in Toronto. Now titled The Day Lacey Called, the film began production in April 2022 in Sault Ste Marie Ontario. Recently, he completed a page-one rewrite on Albion, a fantasy thriller for Hacienda Pictures and A Bigger Boat.