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SCARBOROUGH

By Shasha NAKHAI, Rich WILLIAMSON

Drama - Completed 2021

Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community, compassion and resilience at a drop-in literacy centre.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021

Discovery

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues, Book adaptation
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 136 mn
- Director(s)
- Shasha NAKHAI, Rich WILLIAMSON
- Writer(s)
- Catherine HERNANDEZ
- Producer(s)
- Shasha NAKHAI (Compy Films)
- Synopsis
- Scarborough is the film adaptation of writer Catherine Hernandez’s award-winning and critically acclaimed novel of the same name. The film follows the lives of 3 children in Toronto’s low-income East End as they become friends over the course of a school year.
  Bing, who lives under the shadow of his father’s mental illness while his mother works tirelessly in a nearby nail salon. Sylvie, who, along with her family, rides the waves of the shelter system and the complications of special-needs education. And Laura, whose history of neglect with her mother is destined to repeat itself with her father.
  The children find community, compassion, and resilience in an unlikely place - a drop-in family reading program. Run by compassionate childhood educator Ms Hina, the program’s goal is to increase literacy on a provincial level. But amidst acute poverty and rampant drug use, Ms. Hina soon realizes the neighborhood’s people would be more interested in learning – if only they had full stomachs.