Hurt (2015 film)

Hurt
Directed by Alan Zweig
Produced by Peter Gentile
Mike Lalonde
Starring Steve Fonyo
Production
companies
MDF Productions
Release dates
  • September 14, 2015 (2015-09-14) (TIFF)
Country Canada
Language English

Hurt is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Alan Zweig and released in 2015.[1] The film explores the troubled life of Steve Fonyo, the Canadian amputee athlete who completed a cross-Canada run to raise funds for cancer research in 1984 and 1985.

The film was produced by MDF Productions.

The film won the Platform Prize at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian films of the year.[3] At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, Hurt won the award for Best Feature Length Documentary.

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