Ed Gass-Donnelly

Edward Gass-Donnelly who is popularly known as Ed Gass-Donnelly was born on August 17th, 1977. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is among the top Canadian directors. He has also been a screenwriter and has produced a few movies as well. "This Beautiful City" was a full-length movie directed by Ed which was nominated for four Genies at 29th Genies Awards. This movie released in 2008, was a drama film which was filmed at the Toronto Film Festival much before its release in 2007. Ed is most popular for his short films."Pony" and "Dying like Ophelia" are his short films that release around 2002. In 2003, a movie directed by him named as " Pink Pink is an American Songwriter, Singer, and Actres >> Read More... " was released. "This Beautiful City" was Ed's first full-length movie which gained immense attention and brought him popularity. In the same year, he made another short film called "60 seconds of regret". Ed made many other full-length movies too like "Small town murder songs" and "The Last Exorcism part 2" which were released in 2011. "The determinist" was the most recent movie that was directed by Ed was released in 2014. This was a short film. He began his career with theatre, and he also served as an editor. Ed recently won FIPRESCI for Best Film at Torino Film Festival.

In 2011, Ed was named on 2011's "Top 10 directors to watch" by Variety magazine. " Lavender Click to look into! >> Read More... " a supernatural thriller which was announced in 2011 was one of the most awaited movies which were the talk of the country.

Ed's most famous play- "Exercise in depravity" won many hearts and received considerable press. This was because of the stage. Strangely, this play was staged in a women's restroom. His father Ken Gass was the founder of the theatre where Ed started off his career- Toronto's Factory Theatre. Recently talking to the media, Ed stated that he already has eight movies in development, and he doesn't want to focus on theatre simultaneously. The reason for this is because he can't do same things twice and he doesn't like repeating himself. This Toronto-based director is apparently inspired by Editing. Out of Sight, "Code Unknown" and "I Stand Alone" are few of his all time inspiring and favourite movies. This 39-year old director-producer and screenwriter who is now all set to work on a big project for the next few years as reported.