Findlay Ironside

Findlay Ironside (she/her) is a Toronto based screenwriter and filmmaker whose work centres on slice-of-life narratives that tend to be dark in nature, but balanced by hopeful undertones.

 

She enjoys dissecting difficult and emotional subject matter, and exploring tenuous family relationships in her writing. The script for her upcoming film, “Family Portraits,” has received over a dozen laurels, and most notably won the Raindance Film Festival script contest at the Oscar / BAFTA qualifying festival in 2024. Her most recent short film, “First Rites,” had its world premiere in July of 2025 at the critically acclaimed Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal before screening at Blood in the Snow  and Toronto Short Film Festival.​

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Findlay is currently in post-production on a body-horror short entitled "Something Borrowed" with the same team from "First Rites." She is also actively developing a dramatic-thriller set to go into production later in 2026.