Bruce Sweeney | |
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Born | Bruce Sweeney ca. 1962 Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1995–present |
Bruce Sweeney (born 1962 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director. He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Career
Sweeney's debut film, Live Bait, won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival.
He won the 2002 Canadian Comedy Award for Pretty Funny Film Direction for the film Last Wedding. The film also won the award for Best Canadian Film from the Toronto Film Critics Association.
On June 5, 2010, Sweeney's film Excited won four Leo Awards for Best Feature Length Drama, Best Direction in a Feature Length Drama, Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Feature Length Drama (Gabrielle Rose) and Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature Length Drama (Laara Sadiq). In October 2013 The Dick Knost Show won Best BC Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Filmography
- Live Bait (1995)
- Dirty (1998)
- Last Wedding (2001)
- American Venus (2007)
- Excited (2009)
- Crimes of Mike Recket (2012)
- The Dick Knost Show (2013)
- Kingsway (2018)
- She Talks to Strangers (2023)
References
- "Into the shadows; Vancouver director turns to 'neo-noir' for his sixth premiere at Toronto film festival". Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 2012.
- "For Bruce Sweeney, VIFF is home". The Globe and Mail, September 21, 2013.
- "Live Bait snags Canadian award". The Globe and Mail, September 18, 1995.
- "CBC's Made in Canada leads the pack in Comedy Awards". Waterloo Region Record. April 5, 2002.
- "Memento named best picture by T.O. critics". Prince Albert Daily Herald, December 21, 2001.
- "B.C. spotlight shines on Dick Knost; Made-in-B.C. films get the glory at festival gala". Vancouver Sun, October 7, 2013.
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