Director Bio: Charlie Tyrell is a Toronto-based filmmaker who works in a hybrid style that often combines live-action footage with stop-motion and 2D animation. My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2018, and is one of the most popular shorts on the New York Times Op-Docs platform. His 2015 short doc, I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! (narrated by the late Jonathan Demme), premiered at SXSW 2015 and won Canada's National Screen Institute Blue Ant Media Award for Best Documentary. His narrative and documentary work has screened internationally at such festivals as SXSW, Hot Docs, LA Shorts Fest, Nashville Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Raindance, Brooklyn Film Festival and many more.
Film Synopsis: Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind...including of dirty VHS movies. Narrated by David Wain.
Film title: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
Director: Charlie Tyrell
Countries of Production: Canada
Year: 2018
Provinces of Production: Ontario
Language: English
Runtime: 14 minutes
