Cheating Death
CHEATING DEATH is about choices and second chances. For ten years, Trinidanian Gyasi Ferdinand was known as J9. He was a crack dealer in a very rough neighborhood. The he got shot. The shooting led to a profound spiritual experience, and a personal struggle that Gyasi had never anticipated. For Gyasi to live, J9 had to die.
CHEATING DEATH is a frank, intimate documentary that takes us inside the mind of a man struggling to break free of the street. The film is a journey into a world much talked about but rarely understood. A National Film Board of Canada production.
CHEATING DEATH is no longer available.
