Laurie Lynd

Laurie Lynd (born May 19, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the director of the feature film Breakfast with Scot.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Lynd made the short films Together and Apart (1986) and RSVP (1991) early in his career. The latter of which was cited by film critic B. Ruby Rich in her influential 1992 essay on the emergence of New Queer Cinema. He then attended the Canadian Film Centre, making the short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1992) and the feature film House (1995) while studying at that institution; he was also credited as the producer of John Greyson's CFC project The Making of Monsters.

After his graduation from the CFC, he concentrated primarily on television directing,

In 2019 he released the documentary film Killing Patient Zero.