37° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
AFTER HOURS

DREAMLAND

DREAMLAND
by Bruce McDonald
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, Luxemburg
Year: 2019
Duration: 94'


After getting slighted by a legendary jazz trumpet player, sadistic gang boss Hercules puts his number one enforcer, Johnny Deadeyes, on a mission of revenge. His instructions are simple: cut off the trumpet player’s pinkie finger before he plays a wedding reception. Johnny finds himself getting pushed into dark places: a night club called Al Qaeda, an old-world vampire, a junky child bride and a femme fatale.

Biography

film director

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).

Cast

& Credits

bruce mcdonald
DREAMLAND
Canada-Belgio-Lussemburgo/Canada-Belgium-Luxembourg, 2019, 92’, col.

dreamland

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, story, screenplay, film editing
Bruce McDonald
fotografia/cinematography
Richard Van Oosterhout
scenografia/production design
Eugenie Collet, Florence Vercheval
costumi/costume design
Magdalena Labuz
musica/music
Jonathan Goldsmith
suono/sound
François Dumont, Nicolas Tran Trong, Loïc Collignon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Stephen McHattie (Johnny Deadeyes, il killer e il trombettista/killer and trumpet player), Henry Rollins (Hercules), Juliette Lewis (la contessa/Countess), Lisa Houle (Lisa), Tómas Lemarquis (il vampire/vampire)
produzione/production
Goodbye Productions
coproduzione/coproduction
Calach Films, Velvet Films

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contatti/contacts
Reel Suspects
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www.realsuspects.com
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