Nathan Hughes-Berry is a filmmaker and educator whose work explores flawed characters caught between self-deception and emotional honesty. He is drawn to intimate, character-driven stories—often centered on people who struggle to tell the truth, to themselves and to others.

His short film The Substitute won the Kodak Student Scholarship Award and screened at over 50 international festivals, was cited in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism and named as one of Telefilm programmer Danny Lennon’s Top ten shorts of 2015. Rape Card, funded by SSHRC and Shorts TV, also screened globally, continuing the focus on morally complex narratives that provoke conversation and reflection.

Nathan is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and currently teaches filmmaking and screenwriting at Humber College, Wilfrid Laurier University, and George Brown College. While teaching, he continues to develop and direct films that examine love, shame, and inherited emotional patterns with subtlety and restraint.

hughesberryn@gmail.com