John L'Ecuyer's first feature, Curtis's Charm, was an adaptation of a Jim Carroll story. The film received a Special Jury Citation as Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival. and had a limited theatrical release in North America - Executive Produced by Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema the films budget was 125K. Also at TIFF that year, L'Ecuyer's short film UseOnceAndDestroy * received another Special Jury Citation at the festival, as Best Canadian Short Film. L'Ecuyer's other feature film credits include Saint Jude, Confessions of a Rabid Dog his French-language feature Le Gout Des Jeunes Filles, . L'Ecuyer directed the feature filmThe Riverbank. He is executive producer of The Limits, a debut feature film by director Ben Mazzotta. His feature documentary, Confessions of a Rabid Dog, won Best Social Documentary at HotDocs. He has directed over 15 TV Feature Films including Prom Queen - Premiered as a Gala screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The controversial film about the Montreal abortionist called, The Henry Morgenthaler Affair,The addiction/rehab film written by esteemed writer Cris Cole The Good Times Are Killing Me, and the anti-bullying film TAGGED: The Jonathon Wamback Story as well as the TV movieIn God's Country, a fiction film detailing the escape of a woman from a Mormon polygamous community and her adaptation to life in mainstream Canadian society. 150+ hours of dramatic TV episodic work: A few 'selected' examples: Murdoch Mysteries , Da Vinci's Inquest, Blue Murder --The ListenerQueer as Folk, Live Through This, Just Cause, The Guard and six one-hour directing credits for the A&E series Nero Wolfe starring Timothy Hutton. L'Ecuyer Directed and Creative Produced 24 one-hour dramatic episodes over 4 seasons of ReGenesis starring Peter Outerbridge, Victor Garber, Ellen Page, Wendy Crewson amongst others. Recently L'Ecuyer completed his 3rd season and 12th 1 hour dramatic episode of CBC's The Detectives Rogers/OMNI's Award Winning Mandarin/English crime series Blood & Water. The gritty bikers series Gangland Undercover, Real Detective as well as Nickelodeon's hit teenTV series Make It Pop and The Forbidden World. John L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham. His brother Gerald L'Ecuyer is also a film and television director. *Based on L'Ecuyer's book UseOnceAndDestroy'' originally published in 1998 by Gutter Press as a PAGES edition.
