Rachel Glassman

Selected Showcases and Festivals

2023 - Soma Studio Film Festival for The Other And The Look

2023 - Featured in Write-Haus Magazine Issue 002: Please Scream Inside Your Heart

2022 - Featured in Write-Haus Magazine Issue 001: Here, There, Everywhere

2022 - Tokyo International Film Festival for BIRDS - honorable mention

2021 - 28th Beijing International Student Film Festival for False Spring

2021 - Hodu International Film Festival, winner of Best Experimental Short for BIRDS
2021 - Roma Short Film Festival for BIRDS - Honorable Mention
2018 - Shmorgas Film Festival for BIRDS
2018 - University of Winnipeg Film Festival, Winner of Best Documentary for BIRDS 

2018 - Maximum Exposure for Apple Picking and Construction Site: Morning

2018 - MIMP Mag Reclaim Your Space Launch Event for BIRDS
2018 - Women in Art Showcase for BIRDS

2017 - Women in Art Showcase for Fugue From Reality

2017 - Public Access Variety Show for Fugue From Reality
2017 - Shmorgas Film Festival for Fugue from Reality
2017 - Maximum Exposure for Havana Gym 
2017 - Function Magazine Volume 18 for Havana Night and After School

2016 - NoFilmSchool and MVOD feature for Malick Motifs
2016 - The Global Campus Network Film Festival for Musings on A Solitary Dancer
2016 - Nuit Vibrant Art Showcase for Musings on A Solitary Dancer

2015 - Poetry Institute of Canada - Serenity Anthology for In Spite of Thunder 

2014 - TIFF Next Wave Jump Cuts for A Rather Wonderful Cognizance

Workshops, Grants, and Experience

 2022 - Intern at Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival

2021 - La Selva Film Accelerator led by Werner Herzog - forthcoming

2021-2023 - University of Toronto Film Festival Jury Member

2021 - 98th Annual Hart House Photography Exhibition Juror

2020 - Art Criticism workshop participant led by Yaniya Lee and WNDX Festival of Moving Image

2020 - Official BIPOC Women Photograph Mentor

2020 - Selected for The Garden Portfolio Review

2020 - Toronto Artscape Foundation Launchpad Bursary Recipient

2019 - William F. White's Thesis Grant Recipient 

2017 - Take 21 Film Festival Jury Member

 Selected Credits

Writer / Director

2015 - Musings on A Solitary Dancer
2016 - Mustang to Memory
2017 - And Let Not Fall
2017 - Duke Redbird
2017 - Fugue From Reality
2018 - BIRDS
2018 - Hothouse Flower
2019 - False Spring
2021 - The Other and The Look

Cinematographer

2015 - Erika Dir. Jean Kim 
2018 - Westdale Dir. Andy Reid
2018 - Save Long Form Dir. Franci Dimitrovska
2019 - Yonge Street Dir. Shadora Chambers

Art Assistant

2016 - Work Dir. Claire Allore
2018 - A Little Different Dir. Kayla Recendes
2019 - Limbs Dir. Franci Dimitrovksa
2019 - Your Mother and I Dir. Andy Reid

Script Supervisor

2019 - Rowanberries Dir. Maria Bykina
2019 - Above The Low Sky Dir. Brandon Da Silva
2019 - Dinner With The French Dir. Arisa Chirawu