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Rosvita Dransfeld

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Rosvita Dransfeld
Broke.  Canada, 2008, 77’13 In association with TVO and Knowledge This latest documentary from award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld is set in a pawnshop.  Its owner, David Woolfson, a bone-hard Jewish merchant from South Africa, is a banker of last resort for the down-and-out residents of EdmontonÂ’s grim and unforgiving inner city.  HeÂ’s been running the store for nearly 16 years. Not that he needs to. ItÂ’s just that, if he was stuck at home, he would go mad. 

Then, one day, Chris Hoard, an ex-convict, shows up and offers his help.  For free. Shot in cinema-verite style, director Rosie Dransfeld brilliantly captures the unlikely friendship between the grouchy pawnbroker and his sweet-but-psychopathic assistant.  Chris is learning a lot from the old cynic. But he has his own luggage to carry, and it is wearing him down.

At times hypnotic, the film portrays a powerful depiction of reality.   DransfeldÂ’s style draws us deep into a world of bargaining, insults, poverty and desperation.
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Emmy nominated producer Rosvita Dransfeld is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker who crafts powerful explorations of the human condition. Her films include Who Cares, Antisocial Limited and Broke, winner of a Gemini award and the prestigious Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary. Dransfeld has become one of Canada's most celebrated contemporary filmmakers. POV Magazine has called her "a modern master of vérité." In her films, she reaches deep into the heart of worlds too often hidden from view, connecting the audience to the subjects on screen and provoke reflection from both. Her ability to capture the full humanity of her subjects and place them at the centre of her stories garnered recognition from America's largest documentary festival Hot Docs, which organized a retrospective of her work in its 2016 Focus On spotlight. Recently Dransfeld completed Memento Mori and Vital Bonds - two high profile documentaries for CBC The Nature of Things and CBC documentary channel, NOVA (PBS), SBS (Australia) and DR (Denmark). In 2019 ID completed two documentaries: Her Last Project for CBC POV, and Queens of Dogsville for Knowledge Network, TVO and Canal D.
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    • 6 wins & 2 nominations

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Rosvita Dransfeld

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Who Cares (2012)
Who Cares
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  • Director(as Rosie Dransfeld)
  • 2012
Bosses (2006)
Bosses
  • Producer(as Rosie Dransfeld)
  • 2006
Home Movies
  • Director(as Rosie Dransfeld)
  • 2010

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Producer

  • Dogsville (2021)
    Dogsville
    • producer
    • 2021
  • Her Last Project (2019)
    Her Last Project
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Nova (1974)
    Nova
    • producer
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • The Nature of Things (1960)
    The Nature of Things
    • executive producer
    • producer
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Scott Parker, Rosvita Dransfeld, Aaron Munson, Sergio Olivares, Niobe Thompson, and Jonathan Kawchuk in Memento Mori (2016)
    Memento Mori
    • executive producer
    • producer
    • 2016
  • The Ward (2014)
    The Ward
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2014
  • Anti-Social Limited (2014)
    Anti-Social Limited
    • executive producer
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2014
  • Broke. (2009)
    Broke.
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • The Dogwalker (2007)
    The Dogwalker
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2007
  • Bosses (2006)
    Bosses
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2006
  • Mothers of Courage
    • executive producer
    • producer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2003

Director

  • Dogsville (2021)
    Dogsville
    • Director
    • 2021
  • Her Last Project (2019)
    Her Last Project
    • Director
    • 2019
  • The Ward (2014)
    The Ward
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2014
  • Anti-Social Limited (2014)
    Anti-Social Limited
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2014
  • Who Cares (2012)
    Who Cares
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2012
  • Home Movies
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2010
  • Broke. (2009)
    Broke.
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • The Dogwalker (2007)
    The Dogwalker
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2007
  • Bosses (2006)
    Bosses
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2006
  • Mothers of Courage
    • Director (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2003

Writer

  • Dogsville (2021)
    Dogsville
    • Writer
    • 2021
  • The Ward (2014)
    The Ward
    • writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2014
  • Anti-Social Limited (2014)
    Anti-Social Limited
    • writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2014
  • Who Cares (2012)
    Who Cares
    • written by (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2012
  • Home Movies
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2010
  • Broke. (2009)
    Broke.
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • The Dogwalker (2007)
    The Dogwalker
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2007
  • X-Weighted (2006)
    X-Weighted
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Series
    • 2007
  • Bosses (2006)
    Bosses
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • 2006
  • Mothers of Courage
    • Writer (as Rosie Dransfeld)
    • TV Movie
    • 2003

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    [on screening the documentary Broke. (2009) for the subject's friends]: It was a theatre full of Jewish people and I was sitting there realizing for the first time 'Oh my God, I'm German and I made a film about Shylock.'

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