Genres

Documentary , Crime , Drama

Duration

105 min

Director

David Bouthillier

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

July 31, 2013

Peace Park

Original title: Peace Park

Synopsis

Professional skateboarder, David Boots has been following his passion for skateboarding at Peace Park (place de la Paix) for the last 20 years. PEACE PARK is his first feature length documentary film, which shows an uncensored insider’s perspective of the communities that frequent the park and their struggle to survive Montreal’s attempts to gentrify its red-light district. It explores the ways the city and corporate interests view the people in the park, and looks at the way the two communities (the lifers and the skateboarders) manage to share the space through tolerance and respect.