Reason #57 of '101 Reasons Why I Heart Edmonton'
The Cinema By Emil Tiedemann Every time I drive down 111th Avenue, past the former A1 Trading pawn shop, I think about David Woolfson . He was a Jewish immigrant who ran the pawn shop on the corner of 94th Street, and he was the focus of Rosie Dransfeld ’s Broke. documentary. Shot entirely at A1 Trading, the movie was a raw look at the real desperation of many of his shop’s inner city clients, focusing on an Aboriginal regular named Chris Hoard . The pair sparked up an unusual kinship, giving way to moments only real life could script. The screening of 'Broke.' at the then Global Visions Film Festival. Broke. kicked off the 2009 Global Visions Film Festival (now called Northwestfest ), Canada’s longest-running non-fiction film and art fest, screening mostly documentary features and shorts since 1983, when it was known as the Third World Film Festival. This wasn’t my first film fest in Edmonton though, nor would it be my last. Shortly before Glob...
.jpg)
Comments
Post a Comment