Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the loosely-affiliated Toronto New Wave. McDonald has directed more than a dozen features films over the course of his three-decade-long filmmaking career. The Hollywood Reporter has called him an "iconoclastic filmmaker". Several of his films, ranging from mockumentaries to horror films, have attracted cult followings. His most notable films include Roadkill (1989), Highway 61 (1991), Hard Core Logo (1996), Pontypool (2008), Trigger (2010), and Hellions (2015). Hard Core Logo has been frequently ranked amongst the greatest movies ever to come out of Canada. Early life McDonald was born in Kingston, Ontario, and later moved to Toronto, where he graduated from film school at Ryerson University. At Ryerson, he made the short films Merge (1980) and Let Me See... (1982), the latter of which won the Norman Jewison Award for best student film at the 1982 Canadian National Exhibition and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Jewison has mentored McDonald throughout his career. Career