''Broke'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rosvita Dransfeld and released in 2009.Jamie Hall, "A heartbreaking glimpse into poverty; Powerful documentary aims its lens at an Edmonton pawnshop". ''

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'', November 5, 2009. The film centres on the friendship between David Woolfson, a

pawn shop A pawnbroker is an individual that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. A pawnbrokering business is called a pawnshop, and while many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, ...

owner in

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, and Chris Hoard, an ex-convict who volunteers as an assistant to Woolfson in the shop. The film premiered at the 2009

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, and was screened at the 2009

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and the 2009 Global Visions Film Festival, before having its television premiere on March 3, 2010 as an episode of

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's documentary series '' The View from Here''. The film won the

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for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the

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in 2010. Hoard was again featured in Dransfeld's 2014 film '' Anti-Social Limited'', which was a Donald Brittain Award nominee at the

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in 2016.Brent Furdyk
"2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced"
''

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'', January 19, 2016.

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* 2009 films 2009 documentary films Canadian documentary films Films shot in Edmonton Donald Brittain Award winning shows 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films Documentary films about Alberta English-language documentary films {{2000s-Canada-documentary-film-stub