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TFF’10 – Dog Pound

Bad boys getting badder

“Dog Pound,” twenty nine year-old French director Kim Chapiron's account of modern-day juvy hell, was shot in just thirty days at an actual correctional facility in Ontario. To make his emphatically grim tale even grittier, Chapiron assigned real-life juvenile criminals various roles, mixing them in with his professional cast. Surly-looking men exiting random bars were hired on the spot to play ... more >