A Vancouver film company is producing a “why-done-it” dramatic feature on the life and death of Robert Dziekanski.
“There’s a raw visceral energy around this,” said Laurence Keane, writer and director of Tazed. “We were all involved in this story emotionally because everybody in Canada and even people around the world witnessed a death.
“We feel there needs to be a sense of closure.”
Dziekanski died after enduring five Taser blasts from RCMP officers inside Vancouver International Airport in October 2007. An inquiry was launched into the Polish immigrant’s death with a final report to be issued as late as July.
Keane’s Vancouver-based company Utopia Pictures secured a $1.5-million financial advance in September from Telefilm Canada for development of the project, which the writer describes as a “non-linear” telling of events based on inquiry transcripts and news reports with a focus on the relationship between police and the public post 9-11.
Producer Elvira Lount said she and Keane had met with Dziekanki’s mother Zofia Cisowski but she expressed no interest in reading the script.
Should the project be successful in securing additional funding cameras could start rolling at locations around the Lower Mainland by the end of this year.
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- Dharm Makwana currently serves as a web editor at The Province, British Columbia's best read daily newspaper. For more than four years he wrote on issues affecting the Lower Mainland for the province's third largest daily newspaper Vancouver 24 hours. Before arriving in Vancouver in January 2007, Dharm won the John Lott Scholarship for outstanding journalism at Centennial College. Since then Dharm has developed an interest in municipal and provincial politics, crime and policing and social issues including immigration, prostitution and trafficking. He is currently working on a series of stories involving Vancouver's sex workers.
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