Erik Anderson is an orphan of the Canadian film industry. Self taught, he began making short films out of pocket in 2002, and by 2011 completed his first no-budget feature while pursuing an Honours Degree in Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. The film, 'The Second Times of Troubles,' won Best Feature at both the Os International Film Festival in Norway and the Hamilton Film Festival. Since then, he's continued to make challenging work that defies genre and formal convention. His latest no-budget feature, the meta-cinematic 'My Thesis Film: A Thesis Film by Erik Anderson,' began as his graduate film for an MFA in Film Production at York University, and is most reminiscent of a literary work of auto-fiction. It screened at the TIFF Lightbox and won the prestigious Norman McLaren Award at the Montreal World Film Festival as well as Best Narrative Feature at the Brussels Independent Film Festival. It was named by the Globe And Mail as one of the ten best Canadian features in 2019. His most recent film, 'Ewa Goes Viral,' debuted at the 40th FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and has since been nominated for three LEO Awards.