Daniel MacIvor
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Biography: Daniel MacIvor (born 23 July 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. MacIvor started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto - in residence at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - for whom he has written, directed, and acted. He is now one of Canada's best known playwrights. His plays include Never Swim Alone, This is a Play, Monster, Marion Bridge, You are Here, Cul-de-sac, and A Beautiful View. Five of MacIvor's plays were published as I Still Love You in 2006, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera, (Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, and A Beautiful View), and won MacIvor a coveted Governor General's Award for Drama. Recently, MacIvor has written, co-written and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. They include Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Whole New Thing and Wilby Wonderful. His appearances include The Five Senses. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel MacIvor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Whole New Thing
Overview: Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Wilby Wonderful
Overview: A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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The Five Senses
Overview: Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-18
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Trigger
Overview: Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-12
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I Love a Man in Uniform
Overview: Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Symposium: Ladder of Love
Overview: A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Dear John
Overview: A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bubbles Galore
Overview: A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-25
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Hayseed
Overview: In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a quiet Porridge Glenn farm. When his beagle Speedoh is lost, a call from a psychic suggests a search in Toronto, where hayseed meets hooker wannabe Heidi (Sarain Boylan). She introduces him to two past-porn performers (Shelly Mars, Scott Thompson), the former stars of "Who's Afraid of Vagina Woolf?" Hick Gordie seems destined for street hustling and boogie nights after encountering a gay band that raises AIDS-research money by selling Gordie off to a sleazeball pimp (Alex Karzis). At this juncture, however, Heidi hatches a plan to reunite Gordie and Speedoh.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
Overview: A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's violent life both before and after his death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-28
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Eclipse
Overview: A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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My Addiction
Overview: Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if Dick catches him there he will kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-12
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My Summer Vacation
Overview: Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-23
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Hunting Season
Overview: Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Night Friend
Overview: A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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RSVP
Overview: As Sid returns home from his lover Andrew's funeral, he flips on the radio to find the DJ announcing Andrew's call in request for the song from weeks before his death.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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Uncut
Overview: Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.
Genres: Comedy Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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Boys Briefs 2
Overview: The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Chicken (2001); Back Room (1999); Breakfast [Frühstück] (2002); Touch (2001); and Take-Out (2000)
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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The Last Supper
Overview: Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by choreographing his own death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Past Perfect
Overview: Strangers meet on a cross-Canada flight.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore
Overview: Mump & Smoot find a book and start to read it. The book's comic & tragic story is about a fairy who is tired of the abuse he suffers for being a fairy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Eisenstein
Overview: A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Growing Op
Overview: The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-21
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House
Overview: Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Touch
Overview: A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-10
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Take-out
Overview: The film is the coming-of-age story of the child in the opening sequence, now a chicken delivery boy (although he hates chicken). Alienated from his father, and with an uneasy relationship with his (not gay-friendly) best friend, he meets a new customer. A lawyer going through a divorce, the customer is also alienated and lonely.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Wasaga
Overview: Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the town's much more car-oriented lifestyle, only to find Judy becoming a love interest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-12
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Beefcake
Overview: A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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Justice Denied
Overview: Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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Wake Up, Jerk Off
Overview: A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-23
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