- Bruce McDonald
Bruce McDonald (b.
May 28 1959 ,Kingston, Ontario ) is a Canadian film and television director.Biography
McDonald graduated from the film program at
Ryerson University . His first movie was "The Plunge Murderer", followed by a feature-length zombie flick, "Our Glorious Dead", made with his grandfather'ssuper-8 camera and shot on location at hisRexdale, Ontario high school, North Albion Collegiate. The film premiered in the school cafeteria and made $100.His more successful feature films have included "Let Me See(...)", "Knock Knock", "Roadkill" (1989), "Highway 61" (1991), "
Dance Me Outside " (1994), "Hard Core Logo " (1996) and "Claire’s Hat" (2001). "Roadkill" won most Outstanding Canadian Film at theToronto International Film Festival and "Hard Core Logo" has been frequently ranked amongst the greatest movies ever to come out ofCanada . [ [http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/magazine/20020902/best.html Playback :: Egoyan tops Canada's all-time best movies list ] ]He has also directed episodes of many television series, including "
Lonesome Dove ", "Twitch City ", "", "Instant Star ", "Queer as Folk", "ReGenesis " and "This Is Wonderland ".He completed shooting "The Tracey Fragments" (2006) in
Toronto , which premiered at theBerlin International Film Festival . While shooting the scenes took him only two weeks, he spent nine months in post-production.He was formerly romantically linked with fellow Canadian director
Valerie Buhagiar . (McDonald, on the 15th Anniversary DVD commentary of "Roadkill", even said he had written the part of Ramona exclusively for Buhagiar, with the intention of making her his girlfriend.)He currently resides in Toronto with his partner and film-maker Dany Chiasson and young daughter, Charlie Yoko.
He recently completed shooting a video and documentary, entitled "
The Rawside of Die Mannequin " with Canadiansleaze rock bandDie Mannequin . [ [http://www.fazer.ca/2008/05/30/die-mannequin-interview-with-care-failure-april-2008/ Interview with Care Failure of Die Mannequin about new documentary and video by Mike Bax] ]References
External links
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* [http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1753 Bruce McDonald Interview] on "The Hour " withGeorge Stroumboulopoulos
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