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Daniel MacIvor

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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.

23-07-1962

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

30 Works

producer

1 Works

director

24 Works

writer

16 Works

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Hunting Season

Hunting Season

Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
5.7

Year:

2013

Trigger

Trigger

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
5.0

Year:

2010

Growing Op

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.
6.5

Year:

2008

Whole New Thing

Whole New Thing

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
5.8

Year:

2005

Wilby Wonderful

Wilby Wonderful

A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
5.9

Year:

2004

Boys Briefs 2

Boys Briefs 2

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)
6.1

Year:

2002

Past Perfect

Past Perfect

Strangers meet on a cross-Canada flight.
0.0

Year:

2002

Touch

Touch

A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
6.0

Year:

2002

Eisenstein

Eisenstein

A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
5.5

Year:

2000

Take-out

Take-out

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.
4.7

Year:

2000

The Five Senses

The Five Senses

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.
5.9

Year:

1999

Beefcake

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.
5.3

Year:

1998

Hayseed

Hayseed

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.
1.0

Year:

1997

Uncut

Uncut

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.
3.7

Year:

1997

The Last Supper

The Last Supper

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.
1.0

Year:

1996

Bubbles Galore

Bubbles Galore

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.
2.0

Year:

1996

My Summer Vacation

My Summer Vacation

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.
2.0

Year:

1996

Symposium: Ladder of Love

Symposium: Ladder of Love

A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.
1.0

Year:

1996

Eclipse

Eclipse

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
4.3

Year:

1995

House

House

Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
4.5

Year:

1995

My Addiction

My Addiction

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.
3.0

Year:

1994

Wasaga

Wasaga

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.
0.0

Year:

1994

Wake Up, Jerk Off

Wake Up, Jerk Off

A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
1.0

Year:

1994

I Love a Man in Uniform

I Love a Man in Uniform

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.
7.1

Year:

1993

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer

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.
3.8

Year:

1993

The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore

The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore

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.
1.0

Year:

1992

RSVP

RSVP

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.
4.0

Year:

1992

Justice Denied

Justice Denied

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
0.0

Year:

1989

Night Friend

Night Friend

A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
2.0

Year:

1988

Dear John

Dear John

A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.
2.5

Year:

1988