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Colin West is an award-winning writer & director who grew up in a cul-de-sac in Columbus, Ohio. He now lives and works in LA (mostly) & NYC (sometimes).

His feature film credits include LINOLEUM starring Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Amy Hargreaves, Michael Ian Black and Tony Shalhoub, which world premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2022 (Grand Jury Prize nominee) and DOUBLE WALKER co-written by and starring Sylvie Mix, which was released in 2021. His films have screened internationally at festivals including SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, Seattle Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Sun Valley Film Festival, SF International Film Festival, and Cleveland Film Festival, among many others.

He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Science in Cinema prize in 2022, a New York Times critic’s pick in 2023, and was an Annenberg Foundation MFA Fellow at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

He is represented by Ryan Cunningham at Anonymous Content.

He also heads up the Public Film Archive & Sub_Sequential

colinwestm@gmail.com