FrameThrower · Actors · Don McKellar
Don McKellar
6 films · 335 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1989–2022
Born 17 August 1963 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Don McKellar CM is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
He is known for directing and writing the film Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as his screenplays for films such as Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, and Blindness.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 335 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1989–2022
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical2006
- Member of the Order of Canada
How their films are shot
Measured across 335 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Don takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Don takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 335 frames from Don McKellar's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.