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Carts of Darkness
200859 min 27 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Murray Siple
Production: Tracey FriesenRina Fraticelli
Script: Murray Siple
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, local bottle pickers haved turned the act of binning into a thriving subculture of shopping cart racing. Murray Siple, a former snowboarder and sport film director injured in a serious car accident ten years ago, returns to filmmaking to capture their story in the documentary Carts of Darkness. Shot in stunning high-definition and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd, of Little Sparta, Carts of Darkness borrows the cinematic language of extreme sports films to capture the risk and intensity of life lived on the very edge.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Games and Sports
- Social Issues > Individual in SocietySocial Problems
- Media Education > Documentary Film
- Health/Personal Development > Mental Health/Stress/SuicideSubstance Use and Abuse/Addiction
- Social Studies > Social Policies and Programs
Credits
- writer
- Murray Siple
- director
- Murray Siple
- producer
- Tracey Friesen
- editor
- Michael Brockington
- director of photography
- Christian Bégin
- 1st unit cinematographer
- Kevin Shepit
- 2nd unit cinematographer
- Mike Mckinlay
- director consultant
- Christian Bégin
- Nathaniel Geary
- sound recordist
- Paul Vance
- sound supervisor
- Jamie Mahaffey
- additional camera operator
- Michael Prangnell
- additional editing
- Jeremy Petit
- production assistant
- Peter Blue
- Byron Brisco
- Shin Campos
- Samuel McKinlay
- Shan Powell
- Jana Wiltsey
- production intern
- Damian Kuehn
- motion graphics
- Mike Bishop
- graphic artist
- Elisa Chee
- researcher
- Paula Sawadsky
- stills photography
- Scott Pommier
- Murray Siple
- transcription
- Pamela Pellegrini
- creative consultant
- Nettie Wild
- dialogue editor
- Susan Mahaffey
- re-recording mixer
- Jamie Mahaffey
- mix facility
- The Mix Room
- digital film central colorist
- Andrea Chlebak
- infographics
- Digital Film Central
- colour correction
- Digital Film Central
- production coordinator
- Jennifer Roworth
- technical coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- production supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- marketing manager
- Kay Leung
- program administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
- executive producer
- Rina Fraticelli
Awards
- Best Documentary - over 30 minutesPicture This Film Festival
- Leo Award for Best Documentary Program- Category: Nature/ Environment/ Adventure/ Science/ TechnologyLeo Awards