Talent Guide
Damon D’Oliveira
- Discipline:Producer
- Program Year:Fast Track 2008
Bio
Damon D’Oliveira produced some of Canada’s most innovative feature films – Poor Boy’sGame, RUDE, Love Come Down, H, Proteus, and Lie With Me. D’Oliveira’s films have been distributed internationally and have been selected for festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, and Rotterdam. His most recent feature Poor Boy’s Game (starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland) premiered as a Special Presentation at the 2007 Berlinale. It was also a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007 and won best film and audience choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival.
Current Project
Enter the Cipher (Narrative Feature)Logline
A sheltered white journalist befriends a Brooklyn gang member and aspiring rapper, and is drawn, moth-like, into the flames of his seductive and violent world.