Bruce Parramore (born 1961) is an independent film-maker.Parramore was born in Geneva. His mother is American and his father is Belgian. He was raised in the Middle East, spending the first fourteen years of his life in Iran and Lebanon.Parramore has been living in Norway since 1981. As of 2006 he lives and works part of the time in Warsaw and France where he has set up "Par Amore" with his partner and life companion Basia Borkala.He started his first company Parramore Pictures in 1987 and worked for the next ten years as a freelancer for the Norwegian film industry and the commercial advertising business, as a storyboard artist and visual conceptualizer .Under his company, he drew the complete storyboards for 21 Scandinavian feature films.Bruce became a part-time teacher at Westerdals Reklame Skole between 1992 and 1996. He was teaching visual communication and the Art of Film.In 1994, he was hired as the Chief Visual Artist and Conceptualizer to work, with Stage Director Bentein Baardson and Scenographer Kristian Alsaker, in creating the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games of Lillehammer in 1994. He was engaged for 14 months. The result was 1400 paintings and visual sketches. He then went on working with Beintein Baardson on Ibsen’s Per Gynt TV theater, for NRK Norwegian TV. In 2002 they joined again and worked on the 100th anniversary presentation of Ibsen’s Per Gynt, a show to be performed at the Pyramids of Cheops in Egypt. In 2001 worked as a 2nd Unit Director on the feature film, Aberdeen by Hans Petter Moland, starring Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Heady.In the last ten years, Bruce Parramore has been working as a film director with advertising films, music videos, short films, TV series and featuresAs of 2013 he has directed around 300 commercials and won several international awards.Bruce Parramore has written and directed three short films."Zenith" his Novella Film, produced by Pravda in 2004, was entered in the International Film Festival in Berlin. It won the Grand Prix in Trevignano and has been participating in numerous other film festivals. https://vimeo.com/44857757Bruce's feature film "KOCHAJ I TANCZ" was released the 5th of Mars 2009 and became a big box office. " LOVE & DANCE" was the 1st " dancing" movie in the Polish History. With his partner Basia Borkala they went on to direct 8 episodes of " The Dancers", for the Polish TVP2, base on Alan Parker's "FAME".In 2011 ans 2012, Bruce worked as 2nd Unit Director for Marius Holst Feature " King Of Devils Island " and Kathrine WIndfeld " Hamilton" In the Name of The NAtion ", two major Scandinavian features films packed with action and drama! Bruce Parramore is Currently (as of 2013 ) developing two feature films in Erurope.
Born in Switzerland, he grew up in Beyrouth, Lebanon until 1977. He has been living in Oslo, Norway the last 20 years, working with film, cartoons and painting. His first short film, "Zenith" (2004) was shot in Morocco.
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