Erik Anderson is an orphan of Canadian cinema. Both self taught and self financed, he began making short films in 2002, and by 2011 completed his first no-budget feature while pursuing an Honours Degree in Political Science at Concordia University. The film, The Second Times of Troubles, won best feature at both the Os International Film Festival in Norway and the Hamilton Film Festival. Since then, he's persisted in making challenging work that defies either genre or convention. His latest feature, the meta-cinematic "My Thesis Film: A Thesis Film by Erik Anderson" was his graduate film at York and is most reminiscent of a literary work of autofiction. It recently won the prestigious Norman McLaren Award at the Montreal World Film Festival. He lives below the poverty line in an apartment with mice, and hopes to find a way to keep making films.