Balmoral Hotel (film)

Balmoral Hotel is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa and released in 2015.[1] The film stars Angel Gates as a First Nations sex worker who dances along Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, in a performance that gradually morphs into a political statement against colonization.[2]

Balmoral Hotel
Directed byWayne Wapeemukwa
Written byWayne Wapeemukwa
Produced byWayne Wapeemukwa
Matt Drake
StarringAngel Gates
CinematographyShayne Zwickel
Edited byWayne Wapeemukwa
Music byCris Derksen
Production
company
Thousand Plateaus
Release date
2015
Running time
10 minutes
CountryCanada

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2015.[3] It subsequently received two Leo Award nominations in 2016, for Best Short Drama and Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama.[4]

References
  1. Krystle Alarcon (January 25, 2018). "From the Streets to Film, With Her Heart in the Downtown Eastside". The Tyee. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  2. Na'ama Freeman, "Symbolism in Inuit tattooing: First Peoples, First Screens crafts spaces for conversation". McGill Daily, February 15, 2016.
  3. Bruce Kirkland, "TIFF announces its top 10 films of 2015". Toronto Sun, December 8, 2015.
  4. 2016 Leo Awards Nominees & Winners".


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