In the Gutter and Other Good Places

1993 Canadian film

In the Gutter and Other Good Places

Directed by| Cristine Richey
Cinematography| Douglas Munro
Philip Letourneau
Music by| Adrian Belew

Release date

* 1993 (1993) (VIFF)

Running time

| 56 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| English

In the Gutter and Other Good Places is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Cristine Richey and released in 1993.[1] The film profiles three homeless men in Calgary, Alberta who support themselves dumpster diving and bottle picking for recyclable items.[2]

The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 1993, where it won the award for best short documentary.[3] At the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 1994, the film won the awards for best independent production, best cinematography (Douglas Munro and Philip Letourneau), best musical score (Adrian Belew) and best overall sound (Steve Munro).[4] The film won the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 15th Genie Awards,[5] and was broadcast on CBC Television's documentary series Witness in 1995.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Dumpster divers: Former CBC reporter documents life on the mean streets". Waterloo Region Record, June 14, 1994.
2. ^ "Back-alley Trollers: Film-maker Cristine Richey captures Calgary's trash sifters". Calgary Herald, March 11, 1994.
3. ^ "Film fest beats box office best". Vancouver Sun, October 22, 1993.
4. ^ "There's glitter In the Gutter: Documentary scoops awards". The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1994.
5. ^ a b "In the Gutter out of the film can". Windsor Star, January 17, 1995.

## External links

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* In the Gutter and Other Good Places at IMDb

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary

Canadian Film Awards
1968–1978|

* Never a Backward Step (1968)
* Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
* Wild Africa (1970)
* Les Philharmonistes (1971)
* Coming Home (1973)
* Janis (1975)
* Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
* The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
* The Champions (1978)

Genie Awards
1980–2011|

* Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
* Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
* P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
* The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
* Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
* Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
* Final Offer (1986)
* Dads and Kids (1987)
* God Rides a Harley (1988)
* Comic Book Confidential (1989)
* Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
* The Famine Within (1991)
* Deadly Currents (1992)
* Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
* In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
* The Champagne Safari (1995)
* Bones of the Forest (1996)
* Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
* A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
* Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
* Grass (2000)
* Westray (2001)
* Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
* FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
* The Corporation (2004)
* Scared Sacred (2005)
* Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
* Radiant City (2007)
* Up the Yangtze (2008)
* A Hard Name (2009)
* Last Train Home (2010)
* At Night, They Dance (2011)

Canadian Screen Awards
2012–present|

* Stories We Tell (2012)
* Watermark (2013)
* Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
* Hurt (2015)
* I Am the Blues (2016)
* Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
* Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
* Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
* Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
* Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
* To Kill a Tiger (2022)
* Twice Colonized (2023)
* Yintah (2024)

Short Documentary|

* Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
* Juggernaut (1969)
* KW+ (1970)
* The Sea (1971)
* Selling Out (1972)
* Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
* At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
* Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
* Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
* The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
* Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
* No More Hiroshima (1986)
* The World Is Watching (1989)
* Stunt People (1990)
* The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
* A Song for Tibet (1992)
* Le singe bleu (1993)
* Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
* Maman et Ève (1996)
* Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
* Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
* Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
* The Delian Mode (2009)
* Sirmilik (2011)
* The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
* Chi (2013)
* Jutra (2014)
* Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
* This River (2016)
* Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
* My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
* Take Me to Prom (2019)
* Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
* Nalujuk Night (2021)
* Patty vs. Patty (2022)
* Madeleine (2023)
* Hello Stranger (2024)

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