José Lourenço

José Lourenço, sometimes credited as José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço, is a Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto, Ontario, whose debut feature film Young Werther premiered in 2024.

Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he lived Halifax, Edmonton and Vancouver Island in childhood. He subsequently moved to Toronto, where he was a singer and guitarist in the indie rock band Spitfires & Mayflowers, a writer for the Toronto Star, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Program or Series, Fiction Produced for Digital Media for What Are the Sevens? at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013.

Young Werther premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, before going into commercial release in January 2025.