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David Finch
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David Finch is a Montreal-based filmmaker of Cree and European heritage, and the co-founder of Picture This Productions. He has directed and produced a wide variety of social-issue, historical, and biographical documentaries over the past three decades, most recently as co-producer on the feature documentary There Goes My Childhood. Alongside his partner Maureen Marovitch, David’s work has garnered top honours at Hot Docs, the Columbus Film and Video Festival, Minnesota Webfest, and the Yorkton and Vancouver international film festivals. His films have screened globally, including at the Montreal World Film Festival, imagineNATIVE, and the American Indian Film Festival. David is also passin…
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When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects. The film careens through six unpredictable weeks in the lives of a group of street-kids, as they learn to make films in a video workshop. The streetwise subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old, are a challenging class: sometimes they don’t show up at all, and one has to be bailed out of jail. But they have a passion to create and tell stories. As they work at documenting their experiences on videotape, we discover their world and hidden dreams.
Longshots
1994
In this follow up to the Longshots (1994), a group of at risk youth spend a weekend with a group of former street kids who did a similar workshop a decade earlier. Now in their 30s, they share their stories with their younger counterparts. Surprising, and often disturbing, parallels emerge between the two groups, along with glimmers of hope for the youth.
Still Longshots
2007
A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.
There Goes My Childhood: The Seven Awesome Kids Story
2026
10.0Ada is an aspiring actress auditioning for a project that reminds her too much of her childhood too quickly gone. Later, she comes home and sees her little sister, Dottie, alone waiting for their mother to come home.
Dottie and Mom
2024
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When Longshots premiered in 1994, the film was recognized as being at the forefront of a whole new movement of putting filmmaking into the hands of documentary subjects. The film careens through six unpredictable weeks in the lives of a group of street-kids, as they learn to make films in a video workshop. The streetwise subjects, ranging in age from 17 to 23 years old, are a challenging class: sometimes they don’t show up at all, and one has to be bailed out of jail. But they have a passion to create and tell stories. As they work at documenting their experiences on videotape, we discover their world and hidden dreams.
Longshots
1994
In this follow up to the Longshots (1994), a group of at risk youth spend a weekend with a group of former street kids who did a similar workshop a decade earlier. Now in their 30s, they share their stories with their younger counterparts. Surprising, and often disturbing, parallels emerge between the two groups, along with glimmers of hope for the youth.
Still Longshots
2007
A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community that brought its members fame - and its owner infamy.
There Goes My Childhood: The Seven Awesome Kids Story
2026
