Acclaimed Canadian director Bruce McDonald, who directed TELETOON’s hit live-action film My Babysitter’s a Vampire, is back at the helm for an upcoming episode of the eponymous TELETOON series, which is developed and produced by Fresh TV. The episode of My Babysitter’s a Vampire, entitled “Friday Night Frights,” premieres on Thursday, February 16 McDonald has directed a total of three episodes from season one of the popular tween series.
One of Canada’s pre-eminent filmmakers, Bruce McDonald’s debut feature Roadkill claimed top prize as the Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1990. Roadkill was followed by the other two films in his road trilogy, Hard Core Logo and Highway 61. In between executive producing and directing the television series Twitch City and directing shows such as Queer as Folk, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Tournament and This is Wonderland, McDonald also directed the films Dance Me Outside, Picture Claire, Claire’s Hat and The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess. In 2024, he directed The Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page, which opened the Panorama Program at the Berlin Film Festival and 2024 saw the release of Genie-nominated Pontypool, which premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival. He also directed the pilot Almost Audrey, the television movie My Babysitter’s A Vampire for TELETOON, and multiple episodes of the award winning series Less Than Kind, and the comedy Living In Your Car.
In 2024 Bruce received the Lifetime Achievement in Independent Film Award from the Whistler Film Festival and had three films premiere there that year (Music from the Big House, Trigger and Hard Core Logo II). Bruce just finished directing multiple episodes of the new series Transporter, based on the Luc Besson films of the same name. Up next is the Nicolas Cage thriller, Dark Highway with Palomar pictures and then Pontypool Changes, the sequel to Bruce’s cult classic horror, Pontypool.
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