Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959, in

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) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film ''

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''. In his early career, Lynd made the short films ''Together and Apart'' (1986) and ''

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'' (1991), the latter of which was cited by film critic

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in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of

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, "New Queer Cinema" in Michele Aaron, ''New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader''.

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, 2004. . pp. 14-22. He then attended the

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,Laurie Lynd
at mediaqueer.ca. making the short film ''

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'' (1992)"Contrary fairy tale is class work". ''

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'', July 2, 1993. and the feature film ''

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'' (1995) while studying at that institution; he was also credited as the producer of

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's CFC project ''

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''. After his graduation from the CFC, he concentrated primarily on television directing, including the television films ''Sibs'', ''Open Heart'', episodes of ''

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'', '' Queer as Folk'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. ''Breakfast with Scot'', his second feature film, was released in 2007. His subsequent television work has included '' Forensic Factor'', '' Baxter'', ''

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'', '' Good Witch'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2010 he released the short film ''Verona'', which recast ''

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'' as a romance between two gay university athletes from rival fraternities. In 2019 he released the documentary film '' Killing Patient Zero''."Documentary Killing Patient Zero seeks to restore reputation of Quebec man unfairly targeted in AIDS epidemic"
''

'', April 25, 2019.

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