Colin Brunton

Emerging from Toronto rep theatres The Original 99 Cent Roxy and The New Yorker, Brunton got into the punk music scene as a documentarian in the late 70s, making his short film The Last Pogo, and then went on to build one of the most prolific careers in Canadian indie film and television. He won a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short for The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada, and went on to produce for many of Canada's most well known auteurs. Brunton's feature producing credits include the cult classics Roadkill, Highway 61, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. As Executive Director of The Feature Film Project at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, he executive-produced some of the most successful projects to come out of that program including Rude and Cube. He then went on to conquer the television world with several series including: Our Hero, An American in Canada, The Newsroom, Puppets Who Kill, How to Be Indie, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Almost Heroes, Connor Undercover, Spun Out, Schitt's Creek, and The Good Witch. His filmmaking life came full circle in 2014 with the release of his feature documentary on Toronto's 1970's punk and cultural history, The Last Pogo Jumps Again, co-directed with filmmaker Kire Paputts. In 2015, he was the Executive Producer on Paputts' debut feature film, The Rainbow Kid. In March 2019, he line-produced the feature film, The Marijuana Conspiracty. He is currently (July 2020) the Executive Producer of "Nash the Slash Rises Again!" a feature documentary on his late friend, the iconoclastic musician Jeff "Nash the Slash" Plewman. In December 2019 he completed production of season six of the TV series Good Witch. He is currently in development of the Amazon re-boot of the TV series "Kids in the Hall." He became a member of the Producers' Guild of America in 2020.