Running Time: 6 x 30 mins
Year: 2001

synopsis

Deep inside the nocturnal hush is the hum of men and women bringing comfort to our sleep, and peace to our cities. Delivering our food, patrolling our streets, tending our dead and curing our children, they variously cater to our fears and needs.

Graveyard Shift is a rollicking plunge into the neon world of the midnight worker. From the tender mercies of unsung heroes to the flashing light of emergency workers, these are small-town characters inhabiting the big city’s night.

Spend time with a crime photographer, a tow truck driver, a nurse and a vet, or get involved with the nocturnal rhythms of a dominatrix, a funeral worker or a female impersonator—these are all stories of valour, humour, longing and loneliness.  Against the black of night, the Graveyard Shift promises to frighten, fascinate, amuse and trouble people of the light

Credits

A film by Lindalee Tracey & Peter Raymont


Produced by White Pine Pictures in association with Life Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund,
Created by the Government of Canada, and the Canadian Cable Industry CTF: License Fee Program, Rogers Cable Network Fund, Rogers Telefund, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit