Stryker is a 2004 fiction

Fiction

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al film

Film

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 by Noam Gonick

Noam Gonick

Noam Gonick RCA is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and artist.The son of radical Marxist and former Manitoba MLA Cy Gonick, Noam supplemented his formal film education by studying directors Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. His survey of Maddin's life and work became the documentary Waiting...

 about gang violence in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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's North End. It follows a 14-year-old arson

Arson

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ist who becomes involved in a turf war

Turf war

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 between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino

Filipino people

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 gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang

Slang

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 term for a prospective gang member. Parts of the movie were filmed inside the Continental Airlines Arena

Continental Airlines Arena

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during the 2007 New Jersey High School Hockey state championship between St. Peter's Prep and Delbarton.

External links

• http://www.strykerthemovie.com - Official website.
• Press Kit