 | Sunday, April 22 - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium 
Director: Allan King EMPz 4 Life, a gripping documentary, records the street life of black youth in Toronto’s suburbs. This film presents a gritty yet ultimately compassionate understanding of young people who time and time again have been ostracized, particularly by the educational system. |
With compelling immediacy, director Allan King, one of Canada’s greatest documentary filmmakers and fest visitor in 2007, chronicles the tough, committed volunteers working against overwhelming odds to protect the future of their community’s imperiled youth. Shot in King’s cinema-verite style, without narration or interview, this documentary portrays the eloquence of its subjects’ actions to reveal the complexity of this world with an immediacy and urgency that is characteristically universal. Cast: Brian Henry, Chris Ellis, Jivon Walker, Jordan Mendez
The summer of 2005 was branded in the press as Toronto's "Summer of the Gun," and much of the attention centred on these neighborhoods. EMPZ 4 Life is a respectful exploration of a community often simplified by the prose of a daily headline.
Canada, 113 minutes, 2006, BetaSP.
Presented by: University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies
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