VICTORIA DAY
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With the Victoria Day weekend signalling the last weeks of school, and the Stanley Cup playoffs afoot, the summer of 1988 arrives in Toronto. Ben Spector, a smart, sensitive kid from a Russian immigrant family, hits the Bob Dylan show with his buddies and runs into Jordan Chapman, the class prick and Ben's hockey teammate. Jordan is five dollars shy of scoring some drugs, and Ben begrudgingly spots him the dough. But the next day, Jordan fails to show up at school or hockey practice. With days passing and Jordan's whereabouts a mystery, Ben finds himself in an uncomfortable predicament, especially when a romance with Jordan's sister tentatively blooms in the midst of the ordeal.
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David Bezmozgis
Director
Born in Riga, Latvia in the former Soviet Union, David was raised in Toronto where he still makes his home. In 2004, David's first book, Natasha and Other Stories, was published to wide acclaim and subsequently translated into a dozen languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Zoetrope All-Story. In 2006, Bezmozgis attended the Sundance Screenwriting Lab where he developed the script for Victoria Day, his debut feature film.
35 mm
88 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
2.35
Original version in English |
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Producers
Judy Holm
Michael McNamara
David Bezmozgis
Director and Scriptwriter
David Bezmozgis
Director of Photography
David Franco
Editor
Roderick Deogrades
Sound
John J. Thomson
Cast
Mark Rendall
Sergiy Kotelenets
Nataliya Alyexeyenko
Holly Deveaux
John Mavro
Scott Beaudin
Melanie Leishman
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Production
Markham Street Films Inc.
487 Adelaide St. W.
Suite 201
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1T4
Canada
(416) 536-1390
(416) 536-7986
info@markhamstreet.com
www.markhamstreetfilms.com
Distribution – Canada
E1 Entertainment Canada
175 Bloor St. E.
Suite 1400
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3R8
Canada
(416) 646-2400
(416) 646-2399
www.entertainmentone.ca
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