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Broke is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rosvita Dransfeld and released in 2009.[1] The film centres on the friendship between David Woolfson, a pawn shop owner in Edmonton, Alberta, and Chris Hoard, an ex-convict who volunteers as an assistant to Woolfson in the shop.[1]

Broke
Directed byRosvita Dransfeld
Written byRosvita Dransfeld
Produced byRosvita Dransfeld
StarringDavid Woolfson
Chris Hoard
CinematographySergio Olivares
Edited byScott Parker
Music byLouis Sedmark
Van Wilmott
Production
company
ID Productions
Distributed byTVOntario
Release date
2009
Running time
77 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film premiered at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[2] and was screened at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival[3] and the 2009 Global Visions Film Festival,[1] before having its television premiere on March 3, 2010 as an episode of TVOntario's documentary series The View from Here.[4]

The film won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010.[5]

Hoard was again featured in Dransfeld's 2014 film Anti-Social Limited,[6] which was a Donald Brittain Award nominee at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[7]


References


  1. Jamie Hall, "A heartbreaking glimpse into poverty; Powerful documentary aims its lens at an Edmonton pawnshop". Edmonton Journal, November 5, 2009.
  2. Liz Braun, "Curtain up for Hot Docs". Toronto Sun, March 25, 2009.
  3. Glen Schaefer, "VIFF reviews". The Province, October 8, 2009.
  4. "TVO presents its March 2010 Media Highlights". Canada NewsWire, February 4, 2010.
  5. Jamie Hall, "Edmonton filmmaker brings home a Gemini". Edmonton Journal, November 17, 2010.
  6. Eric Volmers, "Anti-social ex-con talks of lonely life". Edmonton Journal, November 17, 2014.
  7. Brent Furdyk, "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". Entertainment Tonight Canada, January 19, 2016.



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