LAST CALL AT THE GLADSTONE HOTEL
2008 Gemini Awards
Winner: Best Direction in a Documentary Series – Derreck Roemer, Neil Graham
Synopsis
When aggressive developers buy a flophouse hotel to turn it into an artscentric hot spot, long-time staff and residents begin a five-year struggle to survive. This intimate portrait of the effects of urban renewal upon the poor, reveals the unintentional roles we often play in the process of gentrification.
Documentary 58/65 minutes
Written, produced, directed and filmed by Derreck Roemer and Neil Graham
First Broadcast: May 2007
Broadcasters: TVO, Bravo! Canada, YES Israel
Language: English
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“A bare-bones elegy for a below-the-radar class.”
★★★★
— Now Magazine
“A terrifically astute, conscientious and engaged work…
painfully incisive.”
— Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
