The majority of Bruce's spare time was spent engaging in activities that lifted him out of reality and into the imaginary. These activities included drawing, painting, reading, creating and playing elaborate board games with friends, and watching films. Bruce quickly developed a passion for watching films and films soon became Bruce's favorite means of escape into the imaginary. From that point on, films became an integral part of Bruce's life. The magical characters and stories that floated across the silver screen before Bruce's eyes, when he was young, and when he needed them most, left an indelible impression on Bruce. In Bruce's late teens, when his family situation slowly healed and improved, Bruce's passion for cinema was stronger than ever and he was now interested in the art form far beyond the scope of that of a spectator.

CEGEP (Quebec education system between high school and University) provided Bruce with his first opportunity to really delve into film and television production and he took advantage of that. Bruce took almost every film and television related course offered at John Abbott College and he wrote, directed, and produced no-budget, homemade, film and television projects with friends when he was not in school. Bruce graduated from John Abbott College with a degree in Creative Arts. Bruce was eager to further his film studies in University so he applied to Concordia University's (Montreal) film program and was rejected twice.

Bruce then went to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and further honed his communication skills while attending the University of Ottawa and graduated from there with a BA degree in Communications. During his education at Ottawa University, Bruce was active in the Ottawa film and television scene as he co-directed, co-produced, co-videographed and co-edited a documentary for The United Nations Association of Canada. Bruce was also an instrumental crew and cast member of the community sketch comedy program "TV Zoom" as well as a part-time in studio cameraperson for Rogers Community 22 television station.

Immediately following University, Bruce followed his true passion - motion picture storytelling, and enrolled at The New York Film Academy in Manhattan, New York. Approximately a year later (1998), at age 24, Bruce emerged from the Academy with a certificate of successful completion from both the basic and advanced filmmaking courses of the New York Film Academy, as well as five short films, which he wrote, directed, produced and edited at the Academy. The last of these films, entitled "The Green Room", has since gone on to show at international film festivals.

After completion of "The Green Room", Bruce returned to Montreal where he began writing his first feature length screenplay ("Two Summers") while seeking the funds to produce this same film. During this time, Bruce also worked at a variety of different positions on film projects throughout Montreal and Ottawa (including Script Supervisor, Production Manger, Editor, 1st Assistant Director, Production Sound Mixer, etc.). In 1999 and 2000 Bruce studied film directing briefly with award winning Writer, Director, Producer Mort Ransen ("Margaret's Museum", "Touched") and with Judith Weston (author of "Directing Actors - Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television"). In late winter of 2000, Bruce simultaneously set up and incorporated his film and television production company Image Harvest Films, Inc., completed the first draft of his feature length screenplay ("Two Summers"), and secured the necessary funds to shoot "Two Summers".

"Two Summers" is Bruce's first feature film and it was shot in the summer of 2001. Bruce Lapointe is the Writer, Producer and Director of "Two Summers".