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Dir(s): Alan Zweig
Program: Canadian Spectrum
Run Time: 100 | Canada | Language: English
From the director of 2007's festival favourite, Loveable, comes a very different film. Raw and intimate interviews with ex-convicts who come across as the most gentle souls you could ever meet-apart from the stabbings and armed robberies-talk about their lives in prison and their struggles to adapt to life on the outside. In jail, the guards and the system try to break them down. To survive, they harden their spirit and live by the prison code: don't make eye contact, don't rat on your fellow convicts, don't talk to the guards, don't be an asshole. After 40 years in prison, never having held a job, most find life out of prison harder than life in it. The hardness they've cultivated to survive as convicts crumbles as they reveal the horrific tales of abuse that set the wheels in motion for some very tough lives. Gisèle Gordon.
Co-presented with Friends of Dismas and John Howard Society of Toronto.
Official website: http://www.primitive.net
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Director(s) : Alan Zweig
Producer(s) : Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon
Cinematographer(s) : Alan Zweig
Editor(s) : Randy Zimmer
Composers(s) : David Wall
A Hard Name deals with the following subjects: Addiction & Mental Heath, Crime & Punishment, Poverty, Toronto Stories
A Hard Name will be presented at the following times and locations.
| Time | Films | Venue | Tickets | Calendar |
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| 6:45 pm Sun, May 3 |
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| 7:30 pm Sat, May 9 |
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The following titles are in the Canadian Spectrum category along with A Hard Name.
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