The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada

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The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada
Directed by Colin Brunton
Written byDavid McFadden
Colin Brunton
John Pearson
Produced byColin Brunton
Bruce McDonald
StarringGerry Quigley
Colin Brunton
Carmela Albero
CinematographyGerald Packer
Edited byBruce McDonald
Music by The Gun Club
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Distributed byScreamin' Banshee Productions
Release date
1988
Running time
26 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada is a Canadian short film, directed by Colin Brunton and released in 1988. [1]

Contents

A mockumentary, [2] the film centres on Brownie McFadden (Gerry Quigley), a documentary filmmaker who is trying to track down two guys from Owen Sound, Ontario who flew to the moon in a homemade rocket in 1959 — ten years before the Apollo 11 mission — but were too polite and unassuming, too stereotypically Canadian, to publicly take credit for the achievement. [2] Although he fails in his quest to locate the space travellers, he undergoes a variety of other experiences, including losing his virginity to an older woman, and being followed by a blind cyclist who is travelling across Canada in a parody of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope. [3]

The cast also includes Clarence Haynes, Lynn Haynes, Larry Hudson, Ron Cook, Ellen Dean and Marsh Phillips. [3]

Accolades

The film won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 10th Genie Awards. [4]

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References

  1. "Art flicks". Toronto Star , September 9, 1988.
  2. 1 2 "Watch for Roadkill in cine-ville". Toronto Star , April 4, 1997.
  3. 1 2 Rick McGinnis, "Colin Brunton's The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada"]. Cinema Canada , October 1988. p. 42.
  4. "List of 1989 award winners". Ottawa Citizen , March 23, 1989.