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RSVP (1992)
Character: Sid
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.
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Hayseed (1997)
Character: Mr. Taupe
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.
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Eisenstein (2000)
Character: Stalker
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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The Last Supper (1996)
Character: Dr. Parthens
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.
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Past Perfect (2002)
Character: Cecil
The film intercuts between two days, two years apart. The first: a flight from Vancouver to Halifax, where Charlotte and Cecil, two strangers, meet in seats 3a & 3c and fall in love. The second: a Saturday two years later, where Charlotte and Cecil now a couple, fight, break-up and finally reunite.
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Night Friend (1988)
Character: Lenny
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
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My Addiction (1994)
Character: N/A
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.
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Dear John (1988)
Character: George
A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.
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Wasaga (1994)
Character: David
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.
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Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993)
Character: Busdriver
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.
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House (1995)
Character: Victor
Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
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My Summer Vacation (1996)
Character: Matt Flynn
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.
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The Five Senses (1999)
Character: Robert
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.
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Wilby Wonderful (2004)
Character: Stan Lastman
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
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Touch (2002)
Character: Doctor
A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
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Uncut (1997)
Character: Newscaster
Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.
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Trigger (2010)
Character: Host
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Boys Briefs 2 (2002)
Character: Doctor (segment "Touch")
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)
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Eclipse (1995)
Character: Jim
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
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Growing Op (2008)
Character: Charles
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.
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Bubbles Galore (1996)
Character: Godfrey Montana
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.
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Whole New Thing (2005)
Character: Don Grant
Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
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Justice Denied (1989)
Character: Jimmy MacNeil
Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
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Beefcake (1998)
Character: Bob Mizer
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.
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Take-out (2000)
Character: Pete
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.
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I Love a Man in Uniform (1993)
Character: Director
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.
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Hunting Season (2013)
Character: Dr. Martin
Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
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