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The Street: A Film with the Homeless
199758 min 24 secFilm
Réalisation: Daniel Cross
Production: Daniel CrossDon HaigPeter WintonickFrancis Miquet
Co-produced by the NFB and Necessary Illusions Productions Inc. with the assistance of the Canada Council, CFCF-TV, CIFVF Concordia University, Conseil des arts du Québec, Films Transit, Necessary Illusions, SODEC and Telefilm Canada.
Every day, on the streets of Canada's cities, we pass them on our way to work or school. Bums, beggars, winos, bag people we call them. But who is the person at the end of that outstretched arm? What is life on the street really like? Is there a way off the street? For six years, director Daniel Cross followed the lives of brothers Danny and John Claven and Frank O'Malley--three homeless men who spent much of their time in and around a Montreal subway station. Cross became intimately involved with the three men's lives, chronicling the evolution of their years on the street, and their cycles of addiction and recovery, hope and despair. Filmed in a cinema verité style, The Street: A Film With the Homeless is unique: it humanizes the homeless, breaking down the barrier between us and them, neither moralizing nor offering easy answers. The winner of a Special Jury Award for Documentaries at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 1996 and the People's Choice Award at the 1997 Canadian International Documentary Film Awards in Toronto, this is a gritty, compelling look at life on the streets that moves beyond the media stereotypes to show both the humanity of the homeless and the street-toughened aspects of their existence.
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Catégories de sujets
- Société > Problèmes sociaux
Générique
- réalisateur
- Daniel Cross
- producteur
- Daniel Cross
- Don Haig
- producteur exécutif
- Peter Wintonick
- directeur adjoint
- Richard Boyce
- caméra
- Richard Boyce
- producteur associé
- Francis Miquet
- prise de son
- Serge Noël
- montage
- Peter Wintonick
- montage sonore
- Greg Glynn
- Patricia Tassinari
- ré-enregistrement
- Shelley Craig
- musique
- Jimmy James