Nathan Morlando is an award winning Toronto-based film and television director.

Most recently he executive produced and directed the entire final season of the International Emmy Award winning drama series CARDINAL (CTV/BBC/Hulu), which earned 12 Canadian Screen Award nominations and 3 DGC Awards.

Morlando’s most recent film Mean Dreams received its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight. The New York Times critically acclaimed coming of age crime thriller starring the late Bill Paxton made its North American premiere as a Special Presentation at TIFF, was named one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of the year, and received three DGC Award nominations including Best Director.

His debut feature film as director/writer, the true crime drama Citizen Gangster (IFC Films, eOne), won TIFF’s Best Canadian First Feature Award, went on to earn 5 Canadian Screen Award nominations, two DGC Award nominations including Best Feature Film, and was honored as one of Canada's Top Ten Films of the year. The film also received Belgium’s Liege Crime Film Festival Special Jury Award — the Prix de la Coeur (“The Heart Prize”) — given to the film in special honor of its humanist look at the subject of crime.

Morlando has also directed for BBC America's Copper for Executive Producers Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, and Larysa Kondracki.

Morlando graduated in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Toronto and specialized in Existential Philosophy.