As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely.
This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army. Shot in Toronto at Christmastime, the film chronicles the small hopes and tiny victories of life lived below the poverty line and the daily rewards for those who work to serve others.
Elizabeth Sutton, a lecturer from Toronto and Peter Breen, a professor of cultural studies from St. John's, Newfoundland, come together in his town for a secret liaison. All is bliss. But within twenty-four hours, the affair has collapsed. A clash of languages, cultures, and values force them to come to terms with each other's sense of morality.
In 1990, St. John’s, Newfoundland-based director Rosemary House made the award-winning short When Women Are Crazy. Since then she’s directed over 20 films, including the feature comedy Violet (2001) starring Mary Walsh and Peter MacNeill, and NFB docs Rain, Drizzle and Fog (1998) and Salvation (2002), which was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award. Her other films include Bloomsday Cabaret (2004), nominated for a Best Direction Gemini, Christopher House: Ahead of the Curve (2007), and Hold Fast (dir. Justin Simms).
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