Aruba (film)
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Aruba is a 2006 Canadian coming-of-age dramatic short film and the fiction debut of director Hubert Davis. It was his first major work after his Academy Award-nominated film Hardwood.[1]
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Directed by | Hubert Davis |
Screenplay by | Hubert Davis |
Produced by | Hubert Davis Sam McLaren David Miller |
Starring | A.J. Saudin Devon Bostick Soo Garay |
Cinematography | David Tennant |
Edited by | Hubert Davis |
Music by | Michael White Fraser Macdougall |
Production companies | Brown Entertainment Shine Films Sienna Films |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
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Davis was inspired to create the film after having worked with "at risk kids" in Vancouver, and toward his film addressing issues found within Black communities, he "advocates the need for 'intelligent urban films' that offer a different perspective from the conventions of urban comedies and Black Entertainment TV."[2]
The film has been archived in the National Film Board of Canada African-Canadian Issues Collection.[3]