Jay Reid

Reid is award-winning writer and freelance journalist whose films have played at Canadian and international festivals and have also been featured on short websites such as FilmShortage.com. He is the winner of SODEC’s Grand Prize for his short screenplay PHASES OF THE MOON. As a result of his win, SODEC sent him to the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of SODEC Lab to attend the Producers Workshop. Recently his feature script, THE VOLUNTEER, a dark comedy/drama about suicide hotline volunteers, was shortlisted for The Black List Feature Lab 2018 and the Black List/Cassian Elwes Fellowship. LIFELIKE, his latest short, was recently selected as one of 15 films chosen out of 150 in Canada to be part of Telefilm's Not Short on Talent Program 2019 at the Cannes market.