Calyx Passailaigue
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Calyx Passailaigue is an award-winning non-binary writer, director, and actor. Their projects are Official Selections at many international film festivals including the Beijing IFF, the Montreal Black Film Festival, the Toronto Black Film Festival, the Oakville Film Festival, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, and CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. Calyx is a winner of Ryerson University's Jack Kuper Film Award, the Universal Studios Canada Scholarship in Filmmaking, Best Editing at the Vesuvius International Film Festival, Best Film / Screenplay at the Miami 4 Social Change Film Festival, Best Medium Length Narrative at the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival, and Best Toronto Based Filmmaker at the Toronto Arthouse Film Festival. In 2017, Calyx earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree for Film Production from Ryerson University. As an actor, they have appeared on a Canadian Screen Award winning episode of Paranormal Nightshift (2020) and were cast on Star Trek: Discovery (2017). Calyx's short film Men at War (2019), starring Eric Osborne (Degrassi: Next Class (2016)), Richard Walters (Degrassi: Next Class (2016)), and Keana Lyn Bastidas (The Hardy Boys (2020)), is being distributed by the beloved indie genre film company Troma (The Toxic Avenger (1984)). Their Canada Council for the Arts funded comedy mockumentary Zeen? (2020) has received worldwide distribution through CaribbeanTales Media Group.
