HIS NAME IS RAY

Synopsis

In his anticipated follow-up to "Transformer", which took home the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Hot Docs 2018, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Del Monte gives a human face to our growing homelessness and opioid crises. Ray once had everything. A job that he loved with the Coast Guard. The father to a family. But his heroine addiction took it all away. Now, the former sailor lives on the streets of Toronto with an entire population that seems to have just fallen through the cracks. Who was he? How did he end up there? With a remarkably compassionate and intimate lens, Del Monte follows Ray on his precarious journey to get off the streets and back on the water, where—in the ultimate achievement of the oblivion he craves—he could just sail away from it all.

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CREDITS

Directed, Filmed and Edited by Michael Del Monte
Written by Scott Montgomery and Michael Del Monte
Executive Producer: Derek Cianfrance
Produced by: Tad Munnings, Michael Del Monte, Scott Montgomery
Music by Hanan Townshend
Colour by Clinton Homuth