The spirited Michael Dowse was born (1973) and raised in Calgary. He has worked as a film editor on John Hazlett's BAD MONEY (1999) and Matt Bissonnette and Steven Clark's LOOKING FOR LEONARD (2002). His short film 237 (2000) was followed by his feature debut, the cult hit FUBAR (2002), which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG (2004) is his second feature, and has already garnered praise, winning the City Award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. As Dowse puts it, with his second film he really wanted to, “Rip cinema a new asshole.”