| Broke | |
| Director: | Rosvita Dransfeld |
| Producer: | Rosvita Dransfeld |
| Starring: | David Woolfson Chris Hoard |
| Music: | Louis Sedmark Van Wilmott |
| Cinematography: | Sergio Olivares |
| Editing: | Scott Parker |
| Studio: | ID Productions |
| Distributor: | TVOntario |
| Runtime: | 77 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Broke is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rosvita Dransfeld and released in 2009.[1] The film centres on the friendship between David Woolfson, a pawn shop owner in Edmonton, Alberta, and Chris Hoard, an ex-convict who volunteers as an assistant to Woolfson in the shop.[1]
The film premiered at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[2] and was screened at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival[3] and the 2009 Global Visions Film Festival,[1] before having its television premiere on March 3, 2010 as an episode of TVOntario's documentary series The View from Here.[4]
The film won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010.[5]
Hoard was again featured in Dransfeld's 2014 film Anti-Social Limited,[6] which was a Donald Brittain Award nominee at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.[7]