ELIMINATION DANCE

Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald (Kingston, Canada, 1959) graduated in film from Ryerson University. In 1985 he shot the 16mm feature film Knock! Knock!, which was presented at the 4th Festival Cinema Giovani in Torino. In 1989 he won the prize for best Canadian film at the Toronto Film Festival with the movie Roadkill, the first chapter of his trilogy dedicated to rock’n’roll, followed by Highway 61 (1991), which won Best Director at the Festival in San Sebastián, and the mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1997), Best Canadian Film at the Festival in Vancouver. He participated several times to the Torino Film Festival over the years, presenting movies like Pontypool (2009), This Movie Is Broken (2010), and The Husband (2013).

FILMOGRAFIA

Let Me See (cm, 1982), Knock! Knock! (coregia/codirector Daniel Brooks, 1985), Roadkill (1989), Highway 61 (1991), Dance Me Outside (1994), Hard Core Logo (1996), Elimination Dance (cm, 1997), Fort Goof (cm, 1999), The City (ep. Gorky Parkette; Just Like Honey, tv, 2000), Lex (ep. Garden; Tunnel, tv, 2000), Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson (tv, doc., 2001), Picture Claire (Sola nella trappola, 2001), The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (tv, 2004), The Dark Room (tv, 2007), The Tracey Fragments (2007), Pontypool (2008), This Movie Is Broken (2010), Trigger (2010), Hard Core Logo 2 (2010), The Husband (2013), Hellions (2015).

Don McKellar

Don McKellar (North York, Canada, 1963) is an actor, a screenwriter and a director. He made his directorial debut with the shorts The Bloody Nose and Blue, awarded for best Canadian short film in Toronto in 1992. His first feature film, Last Night (in which David Cronenberg plays a part), received several prizes in 1998, including the Prix de la jeunesse in Cannes, the award for best Canadian first feature film at the Toronto Film Festival, and was in competition at the 16th Torino Film Festival. He was again in Turin in 1998 with the short Elimination Dance, directed with Bruce McDonald and Michael Ondaatje, and in 2004 he directed the comedy Childstar. In the latest years he mainly worked as an actor.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Bloody Nose (cm, 1992), Blue (cm, 1992), Last Night (id., 1998), Elimination Dance (coregia/codirectors Bruce McDonald, Michael Ondaatje, cm, 1998), A Word from the Management (cm, 2000), Childstar (2004), Phone Call from Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul (cm, 2005), Phone Call from Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara (cm, 2005), Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays (ep: Small Talk, Unscripted Conversation, Vomiting, Sleeping with People, Endings, cm, 2011), The Grand Seduction (2013). 

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka, 1943) has been living in Canada for almost forty years. He is one of Canada's most famous poets and novelists. One of his books, The English Patient, was made into an Oscar-winning film by Anthony Minghella.

FILMOGRAFIA

Sons of Captain Poetry (1970), The Clinton Special: A Film about the Farm Show (1974), Elimination Dance (1998).