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

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