Don't Come Searching Explained

Don't Come Searching
Director:Andrew Moir
Producer:Andrew Moir
Sherien Barsoum
Michelle Serieux
Starring:Delroy Dunkley
Music:Ben Fox
Cinematography:Andrew Jeffrey
Andrew Moir
Editing:Graeme Ring
Studio:Hands Up Films
Runtime:73 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:English

Don't Come Searching is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Moir and released in 2022.[1] An expansion of Moir's 2017 short documentary film Babe, I Hate to Go, the film centres on Delroy Dunkley, a migrant worker from Jamaica who returns from his job in Canada to announce his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his longtime partner Sophia.[2]

The film premiered at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[3]

The film was a nominee for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2022 Directors Guild of Canada awards.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Pat Mullen, "Don’t Come Searching and the Art of Letting Go". Point of View, May 2, 2022.
  2. Steve Norton, "HotDocs ’22: Don’t Come Searching". ScreenFish, May 4, 2022.
  3. Joe Belanger, "London native's first feature makes world debut at Hot Docs film fest". London Free Press, April 27, 2022.
  4. Etan Vlessing, "DGC Awards: ‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘Crimes of the Future,’ ‘Night Raiders’ Lead Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter, September 23, 2022.