Film & TV Representation:
Manager, Seth Nagel
Impish Grin, Los Angeles, CA
Glenn Forbes is a Toronto-based film director, producer, screenwriter, and emerging novelist.
As a producer/director he works in commercials / brand films / educational content for many national and international brands and governments. As a filmmaker, he has completed several award-winning short films, including Amplifier and Masterpiece Monday, which was supported by the Canadian Film Centre's Short Film Screenplay Award, and the $100,000 OMDC (Ontario Media Development Corp.) Calling Card grant. His films have been recognized at international film festivals, and broadcast around the world.
As a screenwriter, he is a winner of the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition; a semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting; winner of the Bloodlist; and was awarded a Telefilm Canada New Voices/Golden Quill Award as one of Canada's top emerging screenwriters. In addition to several spec screenplays, he has completed feature film screenplay and TV pilot assignments / work-for-hires such as: the horror screenplays Inhuman and Twitches Get Stitches; the slasher script Burning Lake; a science fiction TV series The Clear Conspiracy; an alien invasion film, Medusa; the crime thrillers The Man Who Forgot and Crime Denied; and the action thrillers Colombia Run, The Blue Whale and End of the Beginning. His feature film screenplay adaptation of the Bill Scott memoir, The Day Lacey Called, was released in the fall of 2022.
The Wreckage, based on his Bloodlist-winning feature film screenplay, is his first novella. It was runner up in the 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition (Mystery/Thriller). Additional unpublished work includes his debut psychological thriller novel, The Future Prime, and a collection of short genre stories, Twisted Lights and Dark Bites.
April 18, 2022
THE DAY LACEY CALLED OFFICIALLY ENTERS PRODUCTION
Thrilled to announce that my adaptation of Bill Scott's memoir, The Day Satan Called began filming in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario today. Now titled, The Day Lacey Called, the film is based on a true story. The film promises be a frightening account of the horrors of demonic possession, covens and exorcism that one Christian Disc Jockey endured in his quest to save a lost soul from the underworld.