David Finch (director)

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This article is about the filmmaker. For David Finch the comic book artist, see David Finch (comic book artist).

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 made 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 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 intimacy and immediacy.

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.