BlackBerry

Matt Johnson · 2023 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Two friends running a failing electronics shop in Waterloo pitch a phone that can carry email, and hand half the company to a fired salesman who promises to sell it for them. Matt Johnson works from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's reported history Losing the Signal, which this archive does not hold. It competed at the Berlinale in 2023 and won fourteen Canadian Screen Awards, among them best motion picture and best direction.

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