Nathaniel Geary's independent film is a sign that not all independent films can be excellent despite the originality. This means that On the Corner always give you the feeling that it could have been better than what we see in the end-result. Hopefully, the film feels quite realistic since it was shot on location in the neighbourhood of Downtown Eastside (a place with serious problems of poverty and drugs) in Vancouver.
Patricia "Angel" Henry (Alex Rice), an Aboriginal who hails from Prince Rupert, lives in Vancouver. In order to survive she turns to prostitution along with her friend Stacey (Katherine Isabelle), a white girl. On one day, Angel encounters Randy (Simon Baker), her brother, and he tells her that he has nowhere to live. Of course, Randy will find a dead-end job, but he'll start selling drugs - by making sure Angel doesn't know it - in the street...
Patricia "Angel" Henry (Alex Rice), an Aboriginal who hails from Prince Rupert, lives in Vancouver. In order to survive she turns to prostitution along with her friend Stacey (Katherine Isabelle), a white girl. On one day, Angel encounters Randy (Simon Baker), her brother, and he tells her that he has nowhere to live. Of course, Randy will find a dead-end job, but he'll start selling drugs - by making sure Angel doesn't know it - in the street...
- 9/3/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
TORONTO -- Robert Lepage's La Face Chachee de la Lune, Denys Arcand's Cannes hit The Barbarian Invasions and Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World are among the top 10 Canadian movies of the year as chosen by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The top-10 list for the festival group's Canadian Film Week, set to be unveiled Tuesday night in Toronto, also included Scott Smith's Falling Angels, the Sarah Polley starrer My Life Without Me from Isabel Coixet, David Sutherland's Love and Sex and Eating the Bones, Nathaniel Geary's On the Corner and another Quebec French-language film, Bernard Emond's 20h17, Rue Darling. Also named in the unranked top-10 list were two documentaries, Alan King's Dying at Grace and Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot's The Corporation.
- 12/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VANCOUVER -- "Kamchatka", an Argentina-Spain drama about a family in flight during the early days after the 1976 Argentinian military coup, earned the People's Choice Award for most popular film Friday at the Vancouver International Film Festival. And the homegrown movie favorite was "The Corporation", a documentary by Mark Achbar and Jennifer abbot, which grabbed the trophy for the most popular Canadian film. Documentaries fared well Vancouver festival audiences this year. U.S. filmmaker John Cadigan won the Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award for "People Say I'm Crazy", an HBO documentary about an artist's struggle with schizophrenia. And the National Film Board award for best documentary feature went to "Los Angeles Plays Itself", from U.S. filmmaker Tom Andersen. Trophies were also handed out to local British Columbia directors. Gina Chiarelli's "See Grace Fly" grabbed the Women in Film and Video Vancouver Artistic Merit Award, Nathaniel Geary's "On the Corner" earned the CityTV Western Canada Feature Film Award, and Jessie McKeown's "The Big Charade" won the Keystone Award for best young western-Canadian director of a short film.
- 10/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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