The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada

The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada is a Canadian short film, directed by Colin Brunton and released in 1988.

A mockumentary, the film centres on Brownie McFadden (Gerry Quigley), a documentary filmmaker who is trying to track down two guys from Owen Sound, Ontario who flew to the moon in a homemade rocket in 1959 — ten years before the Apollo 11 mission — but were too polite and unassuming, too stereotypically Canadian, to publicly take credit for the achievement. Although he fails in his quest to locate the space travellers, he undergoes a variety of other experiences, including losing his virginity to an older woman, and being followed by a blind cyclist who is travelling across Canada in a parody of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope.

The cast also includes Clarence Haynes, Lynn Haynes, Larry Hudson, Ron Cook, Ellen Dean and Marsh Phillips.

Accolades
The film won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 10th Genie Awards.