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Bruce Sweeney
Canadian film director (born 1962) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bruce Sweeney (born 1962 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian film director.[1] He has spent his career based primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]
Career
Sweeney's debut film, Live Bait, won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
He won the 2002 Canadian Comedy Award for Pretty Funny Film Direction for the film Last Wedding.[4] The film also won the award for Best Canadian Film from the Toronto Film Critics Association.[5]
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.[6]
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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)
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