Synopsis
When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects.
The film careens through six unpredictable weeks in the lives of a group of street-kids, as they learn to make films in a video workshop. The streetwise subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old, are a challenging class: sometimes they don’t show up at all, and one has to be bailed out of jail.
But they have a passion to create and tell stories. As they work at documenting their experiences on videotape, we discover their world and hidden dreams.
Directors
Maureen Marovitch & David Finch
Writer
Maureen Marovitch
Producer
Ina Fichman
Director of Photography
Renald Bellemare
Editor
Howard Goldberg
Original Broadcaster
CBC Newsworld