Broke.
In Attendance: Rosie Dransfeld
Rosie Dransfeld’s documentary film BROKE gives us a glimpse into the often surprising hardships and desperation of society’s marginalized. Revolving around the life of inner-city pawnbroker David Woolfson, a grouchy old Jewish immigrant from South Africa who for 16 years has been the banker of last resort to Edmonton’s down-and-out residents, the film is a revealing look at the economy of the poor.
Woolfson is a pawnbroker with a heart, and he truly enjoys his store’s customers – most of them regulars – people full of wit and black humour. Poverty has taught them many survival skills. He develops unlikely connections, including one with Chris Hoard, a hardened young Native ex-convict and self-described psychopath, who befriends Woolfson and soon finds himself being put to work doing odd jobs – cleaning, shelving and tagging goods – albeit for free.
BROKE. takes a hard, blunt account of the day to day life in a pawnshop, peering into a world most of us choose to ignore. As the pawnbroker states, “You don’t see it in your rarefied living conditions… you don’t see how the poor people live, unless you come here. Tragic, some of it.”
This film has been rated: PG
View Trailer | http://dgeneratefilms.com- Director: Rosie Dransfeld
- Producer: Rosie Dransfeld
- Screenwriter: Rosie Dransfeld
- Cinematographer Sergio Olivaries
- Editor: Scott Parker
- Music: Louis Sedmark, Van Wilmott
- Cast: N/A
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