Faculty & Staff

Colin West
Filmmaking
Biography

Colin West is an award-winning writer and director based in LA & NYC. 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, San Francisco 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 also heads up the Public Film Archive & Sub_Sequential.