The Fruit Machine (2018)
May 1, 2018Release Date
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SubsCurrently The Fruit Machine is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: OUTtv Amazon Channel, OUTtv Apple TV Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Johanne Boutin
Self
Michelle Douglas
Self
Patti Grey
Self
Lucie Laperle
Self
Leo Morency
Self
Renee Parent
Self
Diane Pitre
Self
Martine Roy
Self
Sarah Fodey
Director
Michael Tien
Cinematographer
Justin Wotherspoon
Editor
Derek Diorio
Producer
Matt West
Editor
Han Nguyen
Producer
Karl Roeder
Cinematography
Amanda Barakat
Production Manager
Mary O'Shea
Researcher
Rich Nault
Sound Recordist
Andrew Currie Beckstead
Paul Fournier
Gary Kinsman
Suzanne Thibault
Diane Vincent
Darl Wood
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Wiki.
The Fruit Machine is a 2018 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sarah Fodey. The film profiles the "fruit machine", a controversial device used by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to identify LGBT employees and disqualify them from the civil service, and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by the test.
Figures interviewed in the film include Michelle Douglas, John Ibbitson, John Sawatsky and Gary Kinsman.
The film premiered at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival on June 1, 2018, and had selected other film festival screenings before airing as a TVOntario special presentation on September 29.The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Documentary Program at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.