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3 Needles

Item number (ISN):

374746

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2005

Item number (ISN):

374746

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

EMOTION PICTURES INC.

Accession:

2006-0047

Media:

Film

Part:

7 of 7

Production date:

2005

Production company:

Director's cut
Emotion Pictures Inc.
Courage Pictures Inc.

Production credit:

producer/director/script, Thom Fitzgerald; producer, Bryan Hofbauer; executive producer, Michael Gleissner; editing, Susan Shanks; music, Christophe Beck; Trevor Morris

Cast credit:

Chloë Sevginy, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Sook Yin Lee, Stockard Channing, Lucy Liu, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Shawn Ashmore

Distributor name:

ThinkFilm

Description:

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In three separate parts of the world, people's lives are changed by the effects of three small needles. In South Africa, three missionary nuns arrive in a remote village to save the souls of the villagers when a mysterious blood disease is spread through the population and leaves many orphans behind. Clara, a novice nun discovers that the aid doctors are using recycled needles and that this, along with unsafe sexual practices, threatens the people she is meant to save.~In Montreal, Denny an adult film actor who is infected with HIV, cheats his monthly blood tests by extracting blood from his aging father, but is eventually discovered after a test reveals that his blood suggests he has been dead for several hours. Denny's mother, launches a plan to pull her, and her ailing son out of the economic hardships which they have faced through the years.~In southern China, a small village discovers the road to economic prosperity by selling their blood to a mobile collection service, but shortly after the start of the program, people begin to fall ill from an unknown virus which is infecting all of the donors. When the village falls ill, the blood collector disappears and a farmer is faced with a bumper rice crop but no workers to help with the bountiful harvest. <2h 7mn>

Language:

English / French / Mandarin with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. Each different segment of the film is presented in the language unique to the locale with English subtitles.~2. South African segment presented in unidentified tribal dialect with English subtitles.~3. Film was produced with the participation Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation and the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit.~4. Film was produced in association with CHUM Television; Movie Central; The Movie Network (TMN) and Super Ecran.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

428938

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-08-0453
2006-08-0454
2006-08-0455
2006-08-0456
2006-08-0457
2006-08-0458
2006-08-0459

Number of items:

7

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

428939

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-08-0460
2006-08-0461
2006-08-0462
2006-08-0463
2006-08-0464
2006-08-0465
2006-08-0466

Number of items:

7

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

450185

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2008-03-0011
V7 2008-03-0012

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

127:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

450186

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2008-03-0002

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

127:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2008-03-0002

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Courage Pictures Inc., 2005.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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