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BOOST

By Darren CURTIS

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, CANADA

Drama - Completed 2016

If the cops don’t get you, your friends will.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival du nouveau cinéma 2016

Focus Québec/Canada

Shanghai International Film Festival 2017

Official Selection

Austin Film Festival 2017

Jury Award - Honorable Mention Best Narrative Feature

Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2018

Official Selection

Toronto Black Film Festival 2018

Official Selection

Festival du Film Canadien de Dieppe 2018

Official Selection

Open Roof Festival 2018

Official Selection

Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival 2018

Official Selection

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Darren CURTIS
- Writer(s)
- Darren CURTIS
- Cast
- Ntare Guma MBAHO MWINE, Nabil RAJO, Jahmil FRENCH, Fanny MALLETTE, Patrick GOYETTE, Oluniké ADELIYI
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-4E9D-0000-J-0000-0000-H
- Producer(s)
- Frederic BOHBOT (BUNBURY FILMS INC.), Kieran CRILLY (BUNBURY FILMS INC.)
- Synopsis
- Hakeem (Nabil Rajo) is the teenage son of east African immigrant parents living in Montreal’s tough Parc-Ex neighbourhood. Along with his best friend ‘A-Mac’ (Jahmil French), Hakeem works at his uncle’s car wash ‘spotting’ luxury sports cars for a local crime syndicate to make extra money. A-Mac eventually persuades Hakeem to boost a car on their own leading to dire consequences and forcing Hakeem to make a life altering decision and define the type of man he will become.