Megan Griffiths has been a director, writer and producer in the independent film community for over a decade. Her most recent feature is Lucky Them, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival and stars Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt.
Her previous feature, Eden starred Jamie Chung, Matt O'Leary and Beau Bridges and premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival in Austin. The film won the Audience Award and Megan received the Emergent Narrative Female Director award from Chicken and Egg Pictures. Eden went on to receive awards at the Milan International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and the San Diego Asian Film Festival.
Megan's second feature, The Off Hours, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and stars Amy Seimetz, Ross Partridge and Scoot McNairy. Variety said of the film: "The Off Hours provides a reverse angle for a road movie, focusing not on the people passing through but on those who stay behind." The Off Hours was nominated for a FIND Independent Spirit Award for cinematography and also received the Special Jury Prize and Best Director at the 2011 Ourense Film Festival.
Megan has produced such projects as 2011 Sundance absurdist buddy comedy, The Catechism Cataclysm, and 2006 Slamdance Special Jury prize-winner, The Guatemalan Handshake. She was a co-producer on Lynn Shelton's film Your Sister's Sister (starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt and Mark Duplass) and on the acclaimed 2007 Sundance documentary, Zoo. She is also a producer on the upcoming Todd Rohal film Sweet Cheeks.
Megan received her MFA in Film Production from the Ohio University School of Film. While in school Megan wrote and directed three award-winning student films including not Waving but Drowning, a 2001 Student Academy Award nominee. Megan directed her first feature, First Aid for Choking, in 2003, and has since written and directed two narrative shorts, Moving (starring Lynn Shelton) and Eros (starring Sean Nelson), and a short documentary on Seattle indie radio station KEXP for MTV.com.
Megan also serves on the boards of the Northwest Film Forum and the Sustainable Style Foundation, and is an active advocate for sustainable production.
