Meghan Weinstein
Meghan Weinstein is a Canadian director, screenwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. Her films capture the absurd and often hilarious complexities of human connection, while featuring carefully casted ensembles and eye-catching imagery. She's known for producing commercially viable independent feature films under her production companies Daisy Eagle Films/Wizard Cats. Her first feature film, The Influencer, which she wrote, produced and directed, was distributed in 2021 by Breaking Glass Pictures. It is now streaming on major streaming platforms in the US and internationally. She was a producer of The Djinn, which premiered in theaters and on IFC Midnight in 2021 and distributed by IFC Films. "Garnering an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, Djinn's premiere saw a promising $1004 per screen average and brought home over 40 grand. Few films have been able to break this mark in the limited-release space during the pandemic." - Variety. Her early films include the coming-of-age short comedy, Trippin' with the Folks, which won several awards in 2017 including Best Short Film and Best Supporting Actress at the Portland Comedy Film Festival. The off-the-wall sketch comedy web-series, My Delivery Guy, can be watched on Youtube, as well as the web-series Terms and Conditions, which earned her a Best Director nomination in 2019. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from OTIS College of Art and Design and MFA in Filmmaking from New York Film Academy.