Vincent René-Lortie Signs With WME

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian film director and screenwriter Vincent René-Lortie has signed with WME for representation.

His narrative debut short, Invincible (2022), was nominated at the 96th Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short Film and won the Special Jury Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. Most recently, the director is working on the experimental film La Peau de L’Autre (2023), which is currently in post-production. His first feature, You Were Always An Island, is in development.

Vincent is a graduate of Montreal’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and is a member of the Young Guns ’20 class, an award ceremony dedicated to creatives under 30 from across the globe.

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