Bruce McDonald

A story of life on an Indian reservation in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college... (imdb)

A psuedo-rockumentary along the lines of 'This is Spinal Tap', we follow director Bruce Macdonald as he 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 hilariously to the surface. (imdb)

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny.

Suddenly the US east coast is hit by a type of natural disaster formerly reserved, except after a major earthquake, for the Pacific and Indian ocean rims: tidal waves of the destructive tsunami type... (imdb)

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 to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way. (imdb)

Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually hitchhike. On her way through the Canadian back country she meets the weirdest people - and learns to drive, what leads to... roadkill. (imdb)

A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town. (imdb)

A French-Canadian woman, Claire (Juliette Lewis), comes to Toronto to search for her lover and gets involved in a case of mistaken identity -- and soon finds herself the patsy for a crime she didn't commit. To survive, she must clear her name. Mickey Rourke and Gina Gershon play two sleazy criminals, and Callum Keith Rennie shines as a venomous low-level mobster and womanizer.

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. (imdb)

Two ex-bandmates meet up for the first time in over a decade, the acrimonious split still fresh in their minds.

Protagonist is "Bruce" (McDonald), the director in the original film. He's been living the Hollywood life in Laurel Canyon, until his series is cancelled and the only gig offered him is a doc for Wiccan TV about a singer, Care Failure, who claims she's been possessed by Joe Dick, the leader of the punk band Hard Core Logo and the principal in "Bruce"'s doc. (tiff.net)

Ethan Morgan (Matthew Knight) is a geeky freshman, not trusted by his parents to stay home alone with his little sister Jane. They hire Erica (Kate Todd), a girl from Ethan's high school, as a babysitter. However, Erica comes across her best friend Sarah (Vanessa Morgan), and Jesse (Joe Dinicol), Sarah's vampire ex-boyfriend, on the night she is to babysit, and decides to attend a party that Jesse is throwing instead. (wikipedia)

Saddled with a lousy job, an infant son, and a wife doing jail time for sleeping with a 14-year-old, a disgruntled Toronto ad-agency employee struggles to deal with his impotent rage, in this gutsy black comedy from beloved Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald. (tiff.net)

Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her. (imdb)

A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door. (imdb)

Nova Scotia. 1976. It's the weekend of the American Bicentennial and 15-year-old Kit is running away from home. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend Alice, Kit hitchhikes through the stunning maritime landscape towards a new home with his glamorous, artistic mother Laura. However, as Kit and Alice near their final destination they find their relationship tested as Kit approaches a realization that will change his life forever. (imdb)

On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.

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?