''Someone Like Me'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by

Steve J. Adams Steve J. Adams is a Canadian film director who co-directs with Sean Horlor under their production company, Nootka St. Adams and Horlor directed a number of short films together, including ''Just the Tip'' (2012), ''Only One'' (2016), ''A Small Pa ...

and

Sean Horlor Sean Horlor (born January 11, 1981) is a Canadian film director, film producer, poet, actor, television producer, columnist and blogger, who co-directs with Steve J. Adams under their production company, Nootka St.Mike Devlin"Victoria native Se ...

and released in 2021. The film centres on Drake, a gay man from

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who moves to

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as a refugee, and the group of Canadians who have agreed to sponsor him through Rainbow Refugee; it documents his arrival in Vancouver and his adaptation to Canadian life, including friction among his sponsors when all he wants to do is celebrate his new freedom by partying, and the emergence of the

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as a complicating factor. The film premiered at the 2021

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, where it was named one of five winners of the Rogers Audience Award. It was subsequently screened at the

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. The film was a finalist for Best British Columbia Film at the

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021 The 22nd Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards were presented on March 7, 2022, to honour the films selected by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle as the best of 2021.Dana Gee"The Power of the Dog named year's best feature by Vancouver Film Critics Ci ...

, and a nominee for the

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at the 2021

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awards.Kelly Townsend
"All My Puny Sorrows leads film nominees for 2021 DGC Awards"
'' Playback'', September 24, 2021.

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