Bruce McDonald (1959 - )

• director
• born in 1959 in Kingston, Ontario
• graduated from the Ryerson Polytechnic University in film and photography in 1982
• started rise to notoriety as an editor of independent films including Ron Mann's Comic Book Confidential, and Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing and Speaking Parts
• co-founder of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
• produced and directed the award-winning Let Me See (...) (1982)
• worked as Norman Jewison's personal assistant during the filming of Agnes of God
• directed and co-wrote (with Daniel Brooks) Knock! Knock! (1985), which begins as a quasi-experimental tour of people's bedrooms, but shifts into a provocative puzzle: what happens if the director unexpectedly disappears, but the crew keeps shooting?
• co-produced the Genie-winning The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada
• the hilarious Roadkill (1989) was his first feature-length drama
• filmography

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