Thom Fitzgerald

Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald (born July 8, 1968) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thom Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Beefcake

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.

Release Date1998-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd LaFleur's Attorney

Vote Count24

Cam Boy

When Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New York, he turns to camming to make ends meet.

Release Date2021-04-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Roach

Episode Count12

Vote Count4

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Vagimar Director

Vote Count16

The Wild Dogs

A pornographic photographer befriends a terminally ill British diplomat while traveling to Romania.

Release Date2002-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Geordie

Vote Count5

Canada Uncut

A bedridden man is entertained by a friend with pornographic 'mad-libs'.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Movie of the Week

In an experimental narrative, Matthew watches television commercials searching for reflections of queer identity. Thom Fitzgerald's student film from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Release Date1990-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

3 Needles

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety

Release Date2005-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Cloudburst

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

Release Date2011-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count54

Wolf Girl

Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.

Release Date2001-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count34

Shush

Good-natured waitress Jessica goes on a date with a handsome customer, Eric. In the course of their long night, he shows her a site on the dark web. Jessica thinks she recognizes a local missing teenage boy on the site, but when she tries to report it to the police, she finds the site has been removed. Driven to save the missing boy, Jessica begins her own investigation that dredges up horrors from her own past.

Release Date2021-09-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sex & Violence

Follows the lives of a social worker, a victims' advocate and four others who provide support to victims of violence.

Release Date2013-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count15

Vote Count6

To the Moon

An ensemble comedy about love, choreographed dance, kitchen safety, stranger danger, planetary physics, and the idea that it’s never too late in life to figure out who you really are.

Release Date2024-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sugar Highs

Three roommates who can’t make rent would rather get high than work menial jobs. So they set out to find sugar daddies to pay their bills.

Release Date2022-11-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count3

Cherries

A woman celebrates the 187th anniversary of her period.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Good Morning

Good Morning comically examines the ideas of sexual identity and age anxiety via the story of a man who on the morning after his 30th birthday party wakes up with both a massive hangover, and a 17-year-old boy sleeping on his couch.

Release Date2014-03-23

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count6

Not Fit

Darrell Simms is a wise and eloquent gay man in his mid-50s, but for more than 30 years his life has been dominated by an addiction to cocaine.

Release Date2023-03-19

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

Awaiting Atwood

Two washed-up, middle-aged adventuresses are under the delusion literary icon Margaret Atwood has invited them to stay with her in downtown Toronto. Having nothing better to do for the summer, they turn this into a full-on adventure traveling by bike and canoe from Sudbury to Ms. Atwood's front lawn. En route, they experience a series of misadventures, encountering themes and images from some of Atwood's best-loved novels.

Release Date2013-11-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Hanging Garden

William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.

Release Date1997-09-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

Splinters

Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reassessing her relationship with her mother following the death of her father.

Release Date2018-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Stage Mother

A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

Release Date2020-07-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count69

Growing Op

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.

Release Date2008-11-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count30

North Mountain

Wolf, a young métis hunter living on the mountain. While hunting deep in the woods he discovers Crane, an older man with a mysterious past and the scars to prove it. Wolf nurses him back to health. Over time their bond gets deeper and they fall in love. When outsiders begin to show up looking for Crane, blood begins to flow. Cornered by an army of crooked cops, Wolf and Crane work together to boobie trap the mountain, taking them out one at a time until they come face-to-face with the man who pulls the strings…. Bretten Hannam’s debut feature is an ambitious action/thriller with outstanding performances from Justin Rain (Defiance) and Festival favourite Glen Gould (Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Charlie Zone).

Release Date2015-09-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

The Book Lady

Pop culture icon and country music legend Dolly Parton is known around the world as a singer, songwriter and actress. But to a new generation of children in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., she is simply The Book Lady.

Release Date2008-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Gospel According to the Blues

Release Date2010-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Aversion

After a gay couple is bashed in 1963, Ryan's parents commit him to a mental hospital for aversion therapy to straighten him out. Once inside, Ryan realizes the hospital is infested with strange, faceless creatures that stalk the patients.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector