Don McKellar

Degrassi

The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.

Release Date2001-10-14

Charactersd Keith

Episode Count2

Vote Count103

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

Release Date1993-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Concert Promoter

Vote Count46

Republic of Doyle

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Release Date2010-01-06

Charactersd J.J. Murphy

Episode Count1

Vote Count37

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Release Date2010-08-12

Charactersd Director

Vote Count8299

Crimes of the Future

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Release Date2022-05-25

Charactersd Wippet

Vote Count1212

Highway 61

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Release Date1991-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Pokey Jones

Vote Count21

When Night Is Falling

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

Release Date1995-02-01

Charactersd Timothy

Vote Count86

Target Number One

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.

Release Date2020-07-10

Charactersd Norm

Vote Count131

Through Black Spruce

The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

Release Date2019-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Journalist

Vote Count33

Odd Job Jack

Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in Latin America, the show has currently finished its production run as of its fourth season. The second season has been released to DVD, and seasons two through four can currently be seen on the on demand streaming video service Hulu.

Release Date2003-03-05

Charactersd Jack Ryder (voice)

Episode Count52

Vote Count2

Where the Truth Lies

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

Release Date2005-10-07

Charactersd Publishing Executive

Vote Count307

eXistenZ

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Release Date1999-04-14

Charactersd Yevgeny Nourish

Vote Count2086

Exotica

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Release Date1994-09-29

Charactersd Thomas

Vote Count375

Blindness

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Release Date2008-05-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Thief

Vote Count1328

The Art of Woo

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

Release Date2001-09-09

Charactersd Nathan

Vote Count2

Cooking With Stella

Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.

Release Date2010-03-19

Charactersd Michael Laffont

Vote Count11

The Adjuster

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

Release Date1991-11-27

Charactersd Tyler, the young censor

Vote Count71

Giant Steps

A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.

Release Date1992-09-12

Charactersd Real Estate Hucker

Meditation Park

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

Release Date2017-09-08

Charactersd Gabriel

Vote Count19

The Red Violin

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

Release Date1998-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Evan Williams (Montréal)

Vote Count436

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

Release Date2020-09-30

Charactersd Bernard Buckley

Vote Count76

The Event

Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members — mother Lila and sister Dana — she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.

Release Date2003-01-01

Charactersd Matt Shapiro

Vote Count16

Green Door

Release Date2008-09-07

Charactersd Ron

The Middle Man

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

Release Date2021-09-17

Charactersd Doctor

Vote Count45

Monkey Warfare

Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.

Release Date2006-09-10

Charactersd Dan

Vote Count10

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Release Date1999-01-27

Charactersd Alfred

Vote Count15

Rub & Tug

The new manager of a full-body massage parlor must make sure his employees do not grant sexual favors to clients.

Release Date2002-09-10

Charactersd Conrad

Vote Count13

Last Night

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Release Date1998-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Patrick Wheeler

Vote Count157

Treading Water

Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.

Release Date2013-09-13

Charactersd Richard

Vote Count19

American Woman

A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.

Release Date2019-09-12

Charactersd Newscaster 1 (voice)

Vote Count17

Twitch City

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.

Release Date1998-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Curtis

Episode Count6

Vote Count5

Vinyl

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.

Release Date2000-08-01

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count20

Sarabande

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.

Release Date1997-10-24

Charactersd Max

Vote Count2

Elimination Dance

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

Release Date1998-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Male Dance Partner

Vote Count1

Waydowntown

Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.

Release Date2002-01-25

Charactersd Brad

Vote Count25

Zoom

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

Release Date2016-03-31

Charactersd Horowitz

Vote Count111

Redacted

A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

Release Date2007-11-16

Charactersd Criminal Investigator (voice)

Vote Count179

Camilla

Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost love and makes peace with herself and her son, while Freda discovers inner resources she never knew she had.

Release Date1994-11-25

Charactersd Security Guard

Vote Count22

Clean

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Release Date2004-09-01

Charactersd Vernon

Vote Count73

Slings & Arrows

This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.

Release Date2003-11-03

Charactersd Darren Nichols

Episode Count18

Vote Count21

Sea People

At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live without the sea, although in another sense.

Release Date1999-06-21

Charactersd Mr. Whittaker

Vote Count6

Trudeau

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Release Date2002-03-31

Charactersd Greenbaum

Vote Count4

Three Days in Havana

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

Release Date2014-03-28

Charactersd Pepe

Vote Count12

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.

Release Date1997-04-20

Charactersd Paul Heller

Vote Count4

Subconscious Password

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament.

Release Date2013-06-10

Charactersd The Host (voice)

Vote Count8

Leslie, My Name Is Evil

A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.

Release Date2009-09-14

Charactersd Prosecutor

Vote Count28

Hey Lady!

Nothing is safe when fearlessly off-the-charts senior citizen Lady and her chain-smoking best friend embark on a rampage of urban vengeance, upturning everything in their path.

Release Date2020-01-14

Charactersd Dr. Wolfe

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Childstar

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

Release Date2004-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Rick Shille

Vote Count12

Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story

In 1930s Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, a small town pastor, sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address from the pulpit. Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation where his idealism runs into powerful opposition from the wealthy and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader who transformed Canada.

Release Date2006-03-12

Charactersd Clarence Fines

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Roadkill

A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.

Release Date1989-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Russel, the Serial Killer

Vote Count14

Public Domain

A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment.

Release Date2003-01-01

Charactersd Host

Vote Count2

Never Met Picasso

Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.

Release Date1996-01-01

Charactersd Jerry

Vote Count5

Window Horses

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

Release Date2017-03-10

Charactersd Dietmar (voice)

Vote Count18

I Was a Rat

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and Joan are perplexed by his claims that he was once a rat. Meanwhile, rumours are rife at the newspaper about the prince's new love: a girl who captivated everyone at the palace ball.

Release Date2001-12-09

Charactersd Oliver Tapscrew

Trigger

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Release Date2010-09-12

Charactersd Brian

Vote Count23

Sensitive Skin

Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age.

Release Date2014-07-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Al

Episode Count12

Vote Count6

Lolz-ita

A naïve but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful Instagram celebrity.

Release Date2017-08-30

Charactersd Eric

Vote Count6

Your Mother and I

Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says. Whilst Johnna and her dad are talking, they can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated with one another, revolving around one another in their own orbits.

Release Date2016-09-14

Charactersd Father

Vote Count7

Blood Honey

Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare.

Release Date2017-09-01

Charactersd Dr. Bert Morrison

Vote Count17

My Niagara

Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.

Release Date1992-09-12

Charactersd Cabel

Vote Count2

Joe's So Mean to Josephine

Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?

Release Date1997-01-18

Charactersd Mike

Vote Count8

Arrowhead

A man claims to have found a dinosaur skeleton in a vacant lot next to his apartment building.

Release Date1994-01-01

Charactersd Ray Bud

Vote Count1

I'm Yours

A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.

Release Date2012-04-20

Charactersd Phil

Vote Count5

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.

Release Date2004-01-01

Charactersd Self / Pokey Jones / Patrick Wheeler / Matt Shapiro / Brad

Vote Count4

Waiting for Ishtar

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).

Release Date2017-12-14

Charactersd Self

Nash the Slash Rises Again!

Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, an invisible man in full formal white tuxedo and top hat buzz-sawing his violin through endless reams of electronics, melodies and distortion. His music and image were demanding. His life was rock fantasy. ‘NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN!’ uncovers the sinister Canadian electronic music innovator. A classically trained violinist and multi-instrumentalist, he created music that was an unlikely combination of prog-rock, punk-rock, classic-rock, psychedelic fused with techno and industrial before they had names. The end result is an unearthly life drenched in film history, enveloped in a wall of sound that would do Phil Spector justice. A career embodied in artistic integrity, courage and the price-tag that comes with it. ‘NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN!’ unwinds the bandages of a ground-breaking, mad musical scientist whose career decomposed before the world caught up.

Release Date2025-10-29

Charactersd Self - Russell the Serial Killer/Self - Pokey Jones(archive footage)

No Other Choice

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

Release Date2025-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count91

The Sympathizer

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.

Release Date2024-04-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count111

Dance Me Outside

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.

Release Date1995-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

Closet Monster

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Release Date2016-07-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory Editor

Vote Count286

The Grand Seduction

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

Release Date2014-05-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count340

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul

A filmic love letter. One out of two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Festival Film in Paris

Release Date2007-06-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Phone Call From Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara

A filmic love letter. One out of the two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Film Festival in Paris.

Release Date2007-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

It's Not You

Relationships can be an endless cycle of breakups.

Release Date2015-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Preludes

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.

Release Date2000-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Word from the Management

Don McKellar’s autobiographical, wryly comic short looks at Toronto International Film Festival–goers’ fierce desire to get into a screening.

Release Date2000-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Michael: Every Day

Every Day picks up five years after Micheal: Tuesdays & Thursdays, with Michael well established in his new city, and David struggling to continue his practice.

Release Date2017-01-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Blue

New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.

Release Date1992-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

This Movie Is Broken

Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.

Release Date2010-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobIdea

Vote Count15

Once a Thief

Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.

Release Date1996-09-29

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

This Might Be Good

A festival is a concentration of hope. Audiences hungering for something startingly new, famously familiar or just plain "good". Actors hoping their well-conceived sincerity and ritual entrances have that special glow. Press and critics poised to love or hate lucidly. And proud, desperate filmmakers looking for that little blessing on their latest self-projection. All squeezing together for a few days, in a few rooms wondering whether this will truly be the perfect place at the perfect time. Of course, it rarely is. Mostly it's just a collection of almosts. Delicious, shared almosts.

Release Date2000-09-07

Vote Count1

The Occupant of the Room

Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps leads to a sleepless night full of uncanny occurrences.

Release Date2025-10-24