Dan Montgomery, b. 1985, is a Toronto-based producer of film and commercials. In 2009 he co-founded the production company MDFF. His short and feature length films have screened at some of the world’s top festivals including: the New York Film Festival, Cannes Critics’ Week, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, SXSW and TIFF. His 2022 feature, THE MAIDEN, premiered in competition as part of Giornate degli Autori at the 79th Venice Film Festival where it won the Cinema of the Future Award. In 2024, MATT AND MARA had its world premiere at the 74th Berlinale as part of the competition program Encounters. Most recently, he was an Executive Producer and Distributor on Kunsang Kyirong’s debut feature 100 SUNSET which had its world premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival.
As a freelance commercial line producer, he has worked for such production companies as Animals, Merchant, CANADA, Radioaktivefilm, Denim, Somesuch, Stink Films, Park Pictures, Object & Animal, Love Song, Eleanor, Smuggler, Steam, OPC, Furlined, Tool of North America, as well as various ad agencies: Droga5, Energy BBDO, Preacher, Rethink, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Deutsch, GUT, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY, Arnold, Cossette, Dentsu, FCB, Leo Burnett, Anomaly, Juliet, The Hive, lg2, Wunderman Thompson, Motive, TAXI, Erich & Kallman, among others.
In addition to producing films, he has also co-run a monthly screening series in Toronto since 2013, MDFF Selects now presented at the TIFF Lightbox.