Themes: Inner City Blues, Innocence Lost, Street Gangs
Main Cast: Kyle Henry, Deena Fontaine, Ryan Black, Joseph Mesiano, Nick Oullette
Release Year: 2004
Country: CA
Run Time: 93 minutes
Plot
The arrival of a fourteen-year-old Native arsonist (Kyle Henry) sparks a bitter turf war between two rival street gangs vying for control of Winnipeg's North End in Hey, Happy! director Noam Gonick's vivid depiction of the destructive impulses that plague the streets. Backed by a crew of Filipino enforcers who aren't afraid to face up to a challenge, ABS (Asian Bomb Squad) leader Omar (Ryan Black) rules the city streets by utilizing a potent combination of fire and fear. But Omar isn't the only troublemaker looking to cement his status as top thug on the block. Embittered girl-gang leader Mama Ceece (Deena Fontaine) has just been released from jail, and with a little help from her vicious Indian Posse, Ceece is determined to wrestle back control of the streets from the opportunistic ABS gang that thrived in her absence. When a fourteen-year-old Striker (street slang for potential gang member) arrives on the scene fresh from his northern reserve, the confrontation between the ABS and the Indian Posse quickly escalates as each gang prepares to find out once and for all who truly rules the streets of the North End. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Rick Gilbert - Art Director, Billy Martin - Costume Designer, Noam Gonick - Director, Bruce Little - Editor, Juliette Hagopian - Executive Producer, Hellnback - Composer (Music Score), Karmen Omeosoos - Composer (Music Score), Mark Gebel - Production Designer, Edward Lachman - Cinematographer, Noam Gonick - Producer, Ryan Black - Producer, Bruce Little - Sound/Sound Designer, Noam Gonick - Screenwriter, David MacIntosh - Screenwriter
Stryker is a 2004 fictionalfilm by Noam Gonick about gang violence in Winnipeg's North End. It follows a 14-year-old arsonist who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member. Parts of the movie were filmed inside the Continental Airlines Arena during the 2007 New Jersey High School Hockey state championship between St. Peter's Prep and Delbarton.
