Bruce McDonald
Рождение : 1959-05-28, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
История
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
В ночь самой странной свадьбы в истории кинематографа босс гротескной банды нанимает каменного холодного убийцу, чтобы принести ему палец увядающей, наркозависимой джазовой легенды.
Director
It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?
Old Bugger (uncredited)
Две молодые женщины, работающие в компании, которая проводит эвтаназию, отправляются в удаленное поместье, чтобы выполнить заказ. Но там они сталкиваются с ужасным.
Director
Хэллоуин - это время, когда вся нечисть проникает в мир живых и охотится за неосторожными людьми. Особенно охочи демоны и злые языческие божества до невинных детских душ. Но, в наше время, и дети и взрослые, считают этот темный праздник - забавой. С истинной сущностью Хэллоуина приходится столкнуться 17летней Доре, которой пришлось обороняться от нападения кошмарных монстров и спасать свою жизнь и свою душу...
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
Итан Морган — робкий, застенчивый и неуклюжий школьник, который однажды не уследил за своей младшей сестрой и родители наняли для них обоих няню, которая ходила с ним в одну и ту же школу. Как-то раз Итан заметил что-то странное в ней и оказалось, что она вампирша. Подросток и его лучший друг Бенни её очень испугались, но она оказалась милым и добрым вампиром, который не пьет человеческую кровь, а только кровь животных. Итан и Бенни обнаруживают, что они обладают сверхспособностями. Бенни оказывается колдуном, а Итан прорицателем. Вместе со своими друзьями-вампирами двух подростков ждут невероятные и захватывающие приключения, которые происходят с ними каждый день!
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
Продолжение Hard Core Logo. Брюс МакДоналд снова отправляется в дорогу, навстречу своим (а равно и чужим) демонам.
Director
Продолжение Hard Core Logo. Брюс МакДоналд снова отправляется в дорогу, навстречу своим (а равно и чужим) демонам.
Director
Грант, Сидни и Лорэл-Энн работают в городке Понтипул на небольшой радиостанции, которая располагается в подвале старой церкви. Одним ненастным зимним утром на радио начинают поступать обрывки противоречивой информации о странных событиях, которые творятся в городе. То, что сначала выглядело, как уличные беспорядки, на самом деле оказалось эпидемией вируса, превратившего горожан в обезумевшую толпу. И рано или поздно весь этот ужас доберётся и до их уютного подвала…
Director
Фильм о 15-летней девочке-аутсайдере Трэйси Берковитц, об агрессивной среде, пожирающей её и о попытке сбежать от всех, кого она ненавидит: от апатичных родителей, от беспощадных одноклассников, от самой себя. Фильм о первой любви и далеко не первом разочаровании в людях…
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
Лихо распрощавшись с прошлым, Клэр покидает Монреаль, надеясь обрести счастье в Торонто. Совершенно не зная английского, растерянная искательница приключений не догадывается, что с первых же минут в новом, чужом городе она невольно стала главным героем безумной аферы с бриллиантами и жестокими убийцами-контрабандистами. Вездесущей полиции и безжалостной мафии очень не нравится загадочная Клэр, и они заставят ее отвечать за чужие грехи, если она срочно не возьмет ситуацию в свои руки.
Director
Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Wild Guy #3
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
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
Джо Сыщик, Талант Билли, Джон Оксенбергер и Водопроводчик — это «Эмблема тяжелого рока», легендарная Ванкуверская панк-группа, закончившая свое существование. Джо удается убедить своих бывших партнеров преодолеть личные разногласия и вновь объединиться для еще одного концерта, ставшего удачным. Неожиданный успех сулит им небывалый гастрольный тур, в котором мы сопровождаем их по бескрайним просторам западной Канады…
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
A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair.
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
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
Editorial Production Assistant
Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.
Director
