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2015 Canadian film

Hurt

Directed by	Alan Zweig
Written by	Alan Zweig
Produced by	Peter Gentile Mike Lalonde
Starring	Steve Fonyo
Cinematography	Ian Kerr Jonathon Cliff Chris Romeike
Edited by	Robert Swartz
Music by	Justin Small Ohad Benchetrit
Production company	MDF Productions
Release date	September 14, 2015 (2015-09-14) (TIFF)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Hurt is a 2015 Canadian documentary film, directed by Alan Zweig. The film explores the troubled life of Steve Fonyo, the Canadian amputee athlete who completed a cross-Canada run that was known as the "Journey for Lives" to raise funds for cancer research in 1984 and 1985.

The film showcases Fonyo's resilience, not only the kind that kept an 18-year-old cancer survivor running the equivalent of a half marathon a day for 400 days for 7924 km. In addition to his 400-day run, the movie also depicts the downfalls of his life, including cocaine addiction, excessive drinking, surviving East Hastings, numerous stints in jail, having his prosthetic leg stolen, and being beaten and stabbed multiple times.

In 2017, Zweig released a sequel, Hope, which picks up from where Hurt left off, chronicling Fonyo's recovery.

Awards

The film won the Platform Prize at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year.

At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, Hurt won the award for Best Feature Length Documentary.

References

"Doc explores the life of Steve Fonyo, the man who completed the run Terry Fox started". The Globe and Mail, September 13, 2015.
"Documentary sheds light on Canadian hero Steve Fonyo's recovery"
"‘Room’ wins TIFF People’s choice Award". Toronto Star, September 20, 2015.
"TIFF reveals Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival line-up". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2015.
Liz Braun, "Room sweeps Canadian Screen awards; CBC comedy Schitt's Creek dominates the television prizes". Toronto Sun, March 14, 2016.

External links

Hurt at IMDb

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
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Genie Awards 1980–2011	Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980) Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981) P4W: Prison for Women (1982) The Devil at Your Heels (1983) Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984) Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985) Final Offer (1986) Dads and Kids (1987) God Rides a Harley (1988) Comic Book Confidential (1989) Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990) The Famine Within (1991) Deadly Currents (1992) Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994) The Champagne Safari (1995) Bones of the Forest (1996) Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997) A Place Called Chiapas (1998) Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999) Grass (2000) Westray (2001) Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003) The Corporation (2004) Scared Sacred (2005) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Radiant City (2007) Up the Yangtze (2008) A Hard Name (2009) Last Train Home (2010) At Night, They Dance (2011)
Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present	Stories We Tell (2012) Watermark (2013) Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014) Hurt (2015) I Am the Blues (2016) Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020) Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021) To Kill a Tiger (2022) Twice Colonized (2023)
Short Documentary	Avec tambours et trompettes (1968) Juggernaut (1969) KW+ (1970) The Sea (1971) Selling Out (1972) Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973) At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975) Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977) The Hottest Show on Earth (1978) Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980) No More Hiroshima (1986) The World Is Watching (1989) Stunt People (1990) The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991) A Song for Tibet (1992) Le singe bleu (1993) Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995) Maman et Ève (1996) Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997) Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) Hemingway: A Portrait (1999) The Delian Mode (2009) Sirmilik (2011) The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012) Chi (2013) Jutra (2014) Bacon and God's Wrath (2015) This River (2016) Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017) My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018) Take Me to Prom (2019) Sing Me a Lullaby (2020) Nalujuk Night (2021) Patty vs. Patty (2022) Madeleine (2023)

v t e Toronto International Film Festival Platform Prize
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