Bruce McDonald heads out West to the ‘Peg Winnipeg's winter lures the award winning Toronto director September 25th 2004 07:20am | Posted by: Editor-in-Chief (Winnipeg Free Press/Reel Life by Randall King) Bruce McDonald, the filmmaker who helped put Adam Beach on the map with his 1994 film Dance Me Outside would like to come to Winnipeg next winter to shoot a movie. McDonald, in Toronto publicizing his upcoming film The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, says he has been in discussions with local production company Buffalo Gal Pictures to adapt the novel The Tracey Fragments, written by Winnipeg-born, Vancouver-based author Maureen Medved. "It's a fantastic book about a 15-year-old girl who loses her brother and goes out to find him in a snowstorm," says McDonald, whose directorial credits also include Highway 61 and Hard Core Logo. "She's really mouthy and she's really talkative -- imagine a little Patti Smith -- kinda funny-looking and a lot of opinions." McDonald admits his initial impulse was to do the film in Toronto or Vancouver, but he says Buffalo Gal had other ideas. "They were like, no, let's shoot it in Winnipeg next winter," he says. "The city plays a big part in the movie. "This is more the tough side of Winnipeg -- the tough bars, the Indian bars -- and then there's a part of it in Tuxedo Heights, which is more of a suburban portrait," he says. "It will be really heavy, man." Source: Winnipeg Free Press In: The Prairies & Up North News |Visit the HNR Forums

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