A Toronto native who honed his craft at the Canadian Film Centre began his career with the shorts Together and Apart (1986) and RSVP (1991), the latter noted in B. Ruby Rich’s seminal essay on New Queer Cinema. While at the Centre he produced the experimental short The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore and the feature House (1995), and also served as producer on John Greyson’s CFC projec…