The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada | |
Director: | Colin Brunton |
Producer: | Colin Brunton Bruce McDonald |
Starring: | Gerry Quigley Colin Brunton Carmela Albero |
Music: | The Gun Club Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet |
Cinematography: | Gerald Packer |
Editing: | Bruce McDonald |
Distributor: | Screamin' Banshee Productions |
Runtime: | 26 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada is a Canadian short film, directed by Colin Brunton and released in 1988.[1]
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]
The film won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 10th Genie Awards.[4]