Bruce McDonald
Nacimiento : 1959-05-28, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Historia
Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He is known for his award-winning cult films Roadkill (1989) and Hard Core Logo (1996).
He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
Director
El jefe de una banda criminal contrata a un asesino a sueldo para que le traiga el dedo de una leyenda del jazz que está en las últimas.
Director
Justo después del final de la guerra de Vietnam y en medio de las celebraciones del bicentenario americano de 1976, el fugitivo Kit y su novia Alice hacen autostop a lo largo de la costa este de Canadá.
Old Bugger (uncredited)
Dos jóvenes que trabajan para una empresa que lleva a cabo la eutanasia, son enviadas a un remoto lugar para realizar un ritual de suicidio asistido, pero terminarán despertando accidentalmente a los fantasmas de un diabólico culto que una vez habitó la propiedad.
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Una adolescente debe sobrevivir a una auténtica noche de Halloween infernal, cuando unas maliciosas criaturas llaman a su puerta.
Director
A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor.
Director
Ethan Morgan es el típico nuevo estudiante de instituto. Aunque ya ha alcanzado cierta edad, los padres de Ethan no confían en él para que cuide a Jane, su hermana pequeña. Así que sus padres deciden contratar a una estudiante más mayor del instituto para que se ocupe de hacer de niñera. Pero la noche en la que debe aparecer esta chica, en lugar de ella llega a la casa Sarah, a quien los padres de Ethan confunden con la niñera original. Esto hace que Ethan, Jane y Sarah se queden solos en casa. Es en ese momento cuando los temores de Ethan se confirman al descubrir, de una manera un poco peligrosa, que Sarah ha sido mordida por vampiros y que está camino de convertirse en uno de ellos. Y lo peor de todo es que el pueblo se encuentra infestado de estos chupasangres, a los que Ethan, con la ayuda de Sarah y de su amigo Benny, se tendrán que enfrentar para salvar a varios de sus conocidos.
Director
Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, has decided to take a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues—Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love of the blues would lead her to play with inmates serving life sentences for murder, rape and armed robbery. In what was once the bloodiest prison in America, inmates relatives will be invited to listen alongside other prisoners, to hear remarkable voices singing stories of hope and redemption. Let yourself be swept away by one of Blues’ most soulful pilgrim daughters who is finding out if music really is an escape.
Director
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Idea
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
Director
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
Himself
Bruce McDonald’s long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he’s been working on is suddenly put on hiatus, Bruce is at loose ends. When he hears that punk rocker Care Failure (played by real-life musician Care Failure) has claimed that she channelled the spirit of Hard Core Logo’s late singer Joe Dick while writing songs for her new album, Bruce hies to Saskatchewan, where Failure and her band Die Mannequin are recording the album under the tutelage of Dick’s idol and former mentor Bucky Haight (Julian Richings, who played the same role in the original film).
Director
Bruce McDonald’s long-awaited follow-up to his cult classic mock-doc stars McDonald himself as "Bruce," the director of Hard Core Logo, who has relocated to L.A. and scored a profitable gig as a TV director. When the show he’s been working on is suddenly put on hiatus, Bruce is at loose ends. When he hears that punk rocker Care Failure (played by real-life musician Care Failure) has claimed that she channelled the spirit of Hard Core Logo’s late singer Joe Dick while writing songs for her new album, Bruce hies to Saskatchewan, where Failure and her band Die Mannequin are recording the album under the tutelage of Dick’s idol and former mentor Bucky Haight (Julian Richings, who played the same role in the original film).
Director
Thriller psicológico que presenta una situación en la que un virus mortal infecta la pequeña ciudad de Ontario.
Director
Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) es un adolescente de 15 años, que como muchas chicas de su edad podría parecer "normal" (sea lo que eso signifique), pero en realidad ella se odia a sí misma. La gran mayoría de la película transcurre en un autobús urbano mientras realiza un viaje nocturno. Tracey se encuentra traumatizada y se sienta en la parte trasera del bus, tapada tan solo por una cortina de baño, buscando a su hermano pequeño Sonny, que se ha perdido. Poco a poco, se nos irá desvelando cómo es la vida de Tracey y cómo ha llegado a este punto.
Director
A woman becomes romantically involved with a murder defendant while she is a juror in his trial.
Self
Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.
Director
Tras perder todas sus pertenencias debido al incendio de su piso de Montreal, Claire tiene que ir a Toronto para alojarse en casa de su novio. Allí será confundida con una asesina convicta.
Director
Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Wild Guy #3
Parece que, desgraciadamente, el fin del mundo se va a producir en la medianoche del 31 de Diciembre de 1999. Dos meses antes, cuando la noticia se hizo pública, cundió el pánico y la confusión; pero poco a poco, el terror se ha ido transformando en resignación, y la gente se esfuerza por tener un final perfecto. Es importante saber dónde y con quién estará uno cuando se acerque la hora cero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Director
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Director
An up-and-coming indie band consider signing a record deal.
Director
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
Producer
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger -- and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Writer
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger -- and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Director
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger -- and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Editor
A filmmaker searches for two Canadians who flew to the moon in 1959, but because they were Canadian, were too modest to tell anybody about it.
Producer
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
Story
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
Producer
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
Director
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
Editor
En "Guiones cambiados" un actor secundario llamado Lance (McManus) trabaja como guardián de un hotel, siendo su verdadero trabajo el de gigoló. Una colega está obsesionada con él, pero Lance la ignora y evita. Deja su curriculum vitae actoral en el cuarto de una guionista, que está realizando audiciones para un telefilme basado en la historia verdadera de su fallecido hermano. Lo escoge para que interprete el papel protagónico y los dos comienzan un romance. Ella se muestra cada vez más angustiada, pues es claro que el productor está cambiando su historia.
Story
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Bruce Shack, the Director
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Producer
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Director
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Editor
Stan, el padre de Van, es un apasionado del vídeo; se pasa la vida grabando escenas de la vida diaria de su familia. Sin embargo, tiene a su madre en una residencia, a pesar de que podría perfectamente tenerla en casa. A Van, que visita a menudo a su abuela, no le gusta que viva en esas condiciones. En la residencia conoce a Aline, una joven que intentará ayudarlo a sacarla de allí. Lo que ocurre es que Van, que ha sido abandonado por su madre, está tratando de construir una verdadera vida familiar.
Editorial Production Assistant
Peter Foster (Patrick Tierney) tiene 23 años, es hijo único y está constantemente discutiendo con sus padres. En una sesión de terapia Peter se entera de la existencia de una familia armenia que dio a su hijo en adopción tiempo atrás, cuando llegaron a Canadá. Peter decide entonces visitarles fingiendo ser su hijo, Bedros Deryan...
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