Kora Vanderlip is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker based on the west coast. Her journey began at age ten, when an interest in storytelling led her to a film workshop in Toronto, Ontario.
Her background in aviation, instructing, and years working on wildfires across the country as a drone operator informs her ability to collaborate, support a team, and work through challenging conditions. This experience also shapes the down to earth, detail oriented approach she brings to her filmmaking.
The paths she walks often lead to stories rooted in lived experience, exploring grief, nature, identity with a focus on grounded, character driven poetic narratives, visuals and documentaries.
Her producing credits include the TELUS Storyhive web series pilot ‘Gotcha’, the Crazy 8’s short films ‘Imran and Alykhan’ and ‘Wy7ele (Moon’s Wife)’, and the Vancouver Film Studios supported short ‘A Poem for My Future’. In 2025, she completed the Storyhive funded short ‘Fire Weather’, which she wrote and directed in her hometown of Kamloops, BC.
In 2020 she co-founded Odd House Films, continuing to develop projects through the company with a commitment to independant and community based film work.
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