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Luis De Filippis is a Canadian- Italian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is most noted for her 2017 short film For Nonna Anna, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. The film went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
Her films feature transgender lead characters, but are not typically driven by inner or interpersonal conflict over the protagonist's gender identity itself; instead, they focus on the protagonist's ongoing family relationships and experiences after the period of gender transition has been settled.
De Filippis was also the winner of the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2018 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.
Something You Said Last Night, her debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.