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Cheating Death
200424 min 32 secFilm: Documentaire
Réalisation: Eric Geringas
Production: Rosalie BellefontainePeter Starr (National Film Board of Canada)Silva Basmajian (National Film Board of Canada)
Scénarisation: Eric Geringas
Produced by Death Defying Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with TVOntario, with the assistance of the Al Waxman Calling Card Program, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and with the participation of DOC Documentary Organization of Canada and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
At 13, Gyasi Ferdinand was an innocent kid from Trinidad, living with his mom in suburban Toronto.
By 17, everything had changed. Gyasi was pulling in up to $2000 a night selling crack cocaine. The 9mm in his waistband had earned him the street name J9.
At 25, he lost it all. Four bullets from a rival dealer's gun left Gyasi inches from death. The shooting led to a profound spiritual experience, and a personal struggle that Gyasi had never anticipated.
For Gyasi to live, J9 had to die.
Cheating Death takes us inside the mind of a man still struggling with the temptations of the street while at the same time trying to serve God. This documentary is a journey into the world of drugs, gangs and guns - a world much talked about and feared but rarely understood.
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Catégories de sujets
- Diversité culturelle et Multiculturalisme > Population d'origine africaine
- Droit et Criminalité > Trafic de droguesPortraitsRéhabilitation
Générique
- écriture
- Eric Geringas
- réalisateur
- Eric Geringas
- directeur de la photographie
- John Minh Tran
- monteur
- Prem Sooriyakumar
- conception graphique en mouvement
- Alan Shisko
- musique originale
- Solitair
- producteur
- Rosalie Bellefontaine
- coproducteur
- Peter Starr
- directeur documentaire
- Rudy Buttignol
- producteur conseil
- Barry Greenwald
- producteur exécutif
- Silva Basmajian
- gestionnaire
- James Weyman
- preneur de son
- Brian Stienburg
- Ian Challis
- montage son
- Kevin Tokar
- mixeur du repiquage
- Kevin Tokar
- assistance à la caméra
- Christine Jeoffroy
- recherche
- Elizabeth Moore
- participant
- Diego Berry
- Loren Clarke
- Andre Peynado
- Mark Thompson
- Njabulo (J.B.) Tshuma
- Yvonne Brown
- Peggy Byfield
- Cynthia Scott Daley
- Bernadette Ferdinand
- Dorothy Hall
- Sherma Lambert
- Valerie McDonald
- Mark Tucker
- Eva Williams
- Joan Wright
- Leroy Wright
- accessoires
- Hand Props Inc.
- assurances
- Unionville Insurance Brokers
Prix et récompenses
- Prix Black Maria choix du DirecteurBlack Maria Film and Video Festival
- Prix Gerbe d'Or - catégorie: Meilleur documentaire cout métrageFestival de film de Yorkton
- Prix du documentaire courtInternational Film Festival
- Mention honorifique - catégorie: Santé mentaleFestival international du film et de la vidéo