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NIAGARA MOTEL

Set in a down-scale motel in the tourist mecca of Niagara Falls, Canada, Niagara Motel tells the story of a group of individuals who are all, for various reasons, at crisis points in their lives: a knockout waitress being recruited to star in low-budget porn videos, a young couple with criminal pasts struggling to recover their child from social services, and a middle-class husband and wife in a marriage that is disintegrating in near-record time. The needs of the characters, their obvious failings, the sordid, unlucky conditions of their lives, make them so vulnerable that they can careen from the disturbing to the hilarious in a breathless instant. In Niagara Motel, tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life.

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Gary Yates
Director

Montréal-born Gary Yates's first feature, Seven Times Lucky, which he wrote, directed and produced, was an official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The film also received the award for Best Western Canadian Feature at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival. Gary Yates has also written and directed several shorts, including The Big Pickle, which was awarded the Directors Guild of Canada/Telefilm Kickstart Prize and the Blizzard Award (Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association) as Best Short Drama, in addition to being chosen as an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival.

35 mm

120 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

1.85

Original version in English

Producers

Bernard Zukerman

Michael Prupas

Phyllis Laing

Terrence S. Potter

Executive Producers

Tom Parkhouse

Jacqueline Quella

Director

Gary Yates

Scriptwriters

George F. Walker

Dani Romain

Director of Photography

Ian Wilson

Editor

Simon Cousins

Sound

Russ Dyck

Production Designer

Deanne Rohde

Costume Designer

Linda Haysman

Set Designer

Ricardo Alms

Original music

Guy Fletcher

Cast

Craig Ferguson

Anna Friel

Kevin Pollak

Wendy Crewson

Caroline Dhavernas

Peter Keleghan

Kris Holden-Reid

Production

Indian Grove Productions
940 Lansdowne Ave.
Bldg. 15, 4th Floor
Toronto Ontario
M6H 3Z4
Canada
(416) 921-2391
(416) 964-3987
ctyson@ca.inter.net


Muse Entertainment Enterprises Inc.
3451, rue Saint-Jacques
Montreal Quebec
H4C 1H1
Canada
(514) 866-6873
(514) 876-3911
mprupas@muse.ca
www.muse.ca


Buffalo Gal Pictures Inc.
70 Arthur St.
Suite 333
Winnipeg Manitoba
R3B 1G7
Canada
(204) 956-2777
(204) 956-7999
info@buffalogalpictures.com
www.buffalogalpictures.com


Coproduction – United Kingdom

Niagara Productions Limited / Aquarius Films
Temple Court
Cathedral Rd.
Cardiff 
CF11 9HA
Wales
44 (292) 064 7535
44 (292) 022 2299
enquiries@aquariusfilms.co.uk
www.aquariusfilms.co.uk


Distribution - English Canada

Mongrel Media
1028 Queen St. W.
Toronto Ontario
M6J 1H6
Canada
(416) 516-9775
(416) 516-0651
info@mongrelmedia.com
www.mongrelmedia.com


Distribution – French Canada

Christal Films
1217, rue Notre-Dame Est
Montreal Quebec
H2L 2R3
Canada
(514) 336-9696
(514) 336-0607
info@christalfilms.com
www.christalfilms.com


International distribution

Park Entertainment Ltd.
50 - 51 Conduit St.
4th Floor
London 
W1S 2YT
England
44-207-434-4176
44-207-431-4179
mail@parkentertainment.com
www.parkentertainment.com



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