Bruce MacDonald
Bruce McDonald
Bruce is a passionate story-teller who focuses on family-friendly entertainment and projects that expose human atrocities across the world. Nominated in 2021 for a Humanitarian award as a Director for his Exceptional Filmmaking for Important One of the leading figures of the Toronto New Wave which emerged in the 1980s, Bruce McDonald is best known as a film and television director – and for his irreverence and love of rock music and popular culture – but his many credits also include editor, actor and producer. He grew up in the Toronto suburb of Rexdale, where he started making films with a Brownie 8mm camera. At 19, his work was being shown at the Toronto Super-8 Film Festival. He studied film and photography at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University), where he also made the short films Merge (1980) and Let Me See... (1982). A 30-minute, 16mm film about “the faith of graffiti,” Let Me See... won the Norman Jewison Award for best student film at the 1982 Canadian National Exhibition and screened at many film festivals, including Toronto's Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival).
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