David Finch (director)

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Canadian filmmaker David Finch is best known for co-directing (and featuring in) a feature-length documentary about polyamory entitled "When Two Won't Do (2001). He and writer/director Maureen Marovitch's other claim to fame is their series of gritty and realistic films documenting the lives of seven Montreal street kids that the filmmakers have followed for more than a decade. "Longshots"(1994), the first film in the series, is an exceptionally honest and unflattering look at a marginalized community of street youth. Finch and Marovitch early on exploited mini video camera formats, which gives their work a rare intimacy and immediacy. Though some of their work may seem raw and unpolished, the films are always compelling and truthful. "Backroads" (1996), a film about two young siblings hitchhiking across Canada to find their mother, shows Finch and Marovitch's ability to gain the trust of their subjects, creating a sensitively-crafted story of betrayed love.