Editing Rod Bruinooge (section)

==Film and television==

In September 2004, Bruinooge and co-director [[Scott Jaworski]] released a film entitled ''Stoners'',<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432097/ IMDB Entry: Stoners]</ref> covering the activities of an internet gaming community that emerged around ''[[The Stone (video game)|The Stone]]''.<ref>[http://www.thestone.com/ "The Stone", website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051027065117/http://www.thestone.com/ |date=October 27, 2005 }}</ref>  The film features several tracks from ''The Division Bell'' in its soundtrack, used with Pink Floyd's permission.<ref>"Creator of online game", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', 21 September 2004, D4.</ref>

Bruinooge started the Winnipeg International Film Festival in 2005, and was its executive director until February 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.winnipegfilmfest.com/ |title=Winnipeg International Film Festival website, 2005 listing. |access-date=2018-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921163916/http://winnipegfilmfest.com/ |archive-date=2017-09-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The festival including a screening of ''Stoners'' during its first year.  Some in Winnipeg's arts community believed it was inappropriate for Bruinooge to screen his own film, although it was screened out of competition.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/winnipeg-film-fest-fuss-1.543764 Winnipeg Film Fest fuss], Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 10 June 2005, 11:37 report, accessed 15 June 2008.{{dead link|date=December 2014}}</ref>

In 2020 Bruinooge appeared in an episode of CBC's [[Burden of Truth (TV series)|Burden of Truth]] alongside [[Kristin Kreuk]] as a First Nation relative of recurring character Cody Chartrand (season 3, episode 4).  Rod Bruinooge is a member of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists union, (ACTRA) since 2019.

Bruinooge was appointed Interim-CEO for the provincial crown agency Manitoba Film and Music in 2021 and became Canada's first Indigenous Film Commissioner at that time. During his career as Film Commissioner Bruinooge led a delegation of film industry and government officials on a mission to Los Angeles on the maiden voyage of Winnipeg's first direct flight.<ref>[https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/2022/10/31/hooray-for-winnipeg-to-hollywood Hooray for (Winnipeg to) Hollywood], Winnipeg Free Press, 31 October 2022, Gabriel Piché}</ref>