A Rock and a Hard Place (film)

A Rock and a Hard Place
Directed byCliff Caines
Written byCliff Caines
Produced byCliff Caines
Lynne Kamm
CinematographyRyan Randall
Edited byCliff Caines
Roland Schlimme
Music byTom Third
Production
company
Headframe Films
Release date
  • May 1, 2015 (2015-05-01) (DOXA)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

A Rock and a Hard Place is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Cliff Caines and released in 2015.[1] The film is a portrait of the gold mining industry in Caines' hometown of Red Lake, depicting both the mining process itself and the thoughts of community members around proposals to demolish parts of the community to facilitate further exploration of gold deposits.[2]

The film premiered at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Colin Low Award jury.[3]

  1. ^ "Red Lake And Mining Industry Featured In Documentary Film". CKDR-FM, May 22, 2015.
  2. ^ Ian Ross, "Filmmaker goes home to document Red Lake mining life". Northern Ontario Business, June 30, 2015.
  3. ^ Manori Ravindran, "'Je suis le peuple,' 'Far Fur Country' win DOXA prizes". RealScreen, May 11, 2015.