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Original title: Radiant City
Year: 2006
Running time: 93 min.
Country: Canada
Director: Jim Brown, Gary Burns
Screenwriter: Gary Burns, Jim Brown
Cast: Documentary
Music: Joey Santiago
Cinematography: Patrick McLaughlin
Producer: Burns Film Ltd, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CPTC, Alberta Film Development Program, Sprawl Alberta, Canadian Television Fund
Genre: Documentary. Comedy. Drama
Synopsis: Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia, we follow the lives of various inhabitants of this pervasive urban sprawl and hear their thoughts. However at the end, there is a twist that plays on the falseness of the world in they live.

Awards: 2007: Genie Awards (Canada): Best Feature Length Documentary.

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Radiant City

2006

Jim Brown, Gary Burns