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Brunton began his career in Toronto repertory theatres The Original 99 Cent Roxy and The New Yorker before entering the punk music scene as a documentarian in the late 1970s, creating the short film The Last Pogo. He subsequently established a highly successful career in Canadian indie film and television. He earned a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short for The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada and produced work for many of Canada's most acclaimed auteurs.
His feature producing credits include cult classics such as 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 notable projects including Rude and Cube. Brunton later made a significant impact in television with series like 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, The Good Witch, Kids in the Hall, Shelved, and One More Time.
In 2014, his career came full circle with the release of his feature documentary about Toronto's 1970s punk and cultural scene, The Last Pogo Jumps Again, co-directed with filmmaker Kire Paputts.
Brunton’s seminar Writing to Budget has been presented at the Directors Guild of Canada and WIFT. He has taught at Ryerson (now Metropolitan University) and The Toronto Film School, and has been a guest speaker at York University, the University of Toronto, LIFT, and various film co-ops in Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.
As of April 2026, he completed his role as co-writer and Executive Producer of the feature documentary Nash the Slash Rises Again!, which explores the life of his late friend, the iconoclastic Toronto musician Jeff "Nash the Slash" Plewman.
