Clement Virgo is an award-winning director whose works span both film and television. He was the first Black Canadian filmmaker to have a film, his debut feature Rude, premier at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard. Since then Virgo’s films have played festivals around the globe including the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2023, his film Brother led the Canadian Screen Awards with 14 nominations and won 12 awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Direction.
His television directing credits include The Wire; The L Word; Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story; Billions; the acclaimed six-part miniseries The Book of Negroes which was nominated for both Critics Choice Television Awards and NAACP Image Awards and shortlisted for a Peabody Award; and Greenleaf which he served as director and executive producer with Oprah Winfrey. Virgo is also one of the co-founders of the Black Screen Office, which strives to dismantle anti-Black racism in Canada’s screen industries.
Learn more about Clement Virgo at the director’s website.
Films:
Split-Second Pullout Technique (1992)
Save My Lost Nigga Soul (1993)
A Small Dick Fleshy Ass Thang (1993)
Rude (1995)
The Planet of Junior Brown (1997)
Love Come Down (2000)
Lie with Me (2005)
Poor Boy’s Game (2007)
Brother (2022)
Steal Away (2025)