 In 1981, Bruno Lazaro was a founding member of Cineworks, an independent filmmakers' co-operative society in Vancouver where he began making short fiction, documentary and experimental films.His first feature, "The Traveller" (1989), had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and participated in the presentation of Canadian Cinema at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.After moving to Toronto in the 1990s, he made a controversial sci-fi cult film "City of Dark" in 1997.