''Wexford Plaza'' is a 2016 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Joyce Wong and starring Reid Asselstine and Darrel Gamotin. The film centres on Betty (Reid Asselstine), a lonely young woman who takes a job as a security guard at a strip mall in the

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area of

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, and becomes attached to Danny (Darrel Gamotin), a bartender in the mall. Midway through, however, the film shifts to Danny's perspective, retelling the building of their relationship from his side. The cast also includes Francis Melling, Ellie Posadas, Mirko Miljevic, Mitchell Jaramillo and Ann Paula Bautista. Although the mall in the film is similarly named to Toronto's real-life Wexford Heights Plaza, the film was actually shot at a closed strip mall in

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. The film premiered at the

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in 2016, and screened at several film festivals throughout 2017 before having its commercial premiere in Canada in November 2017. The

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named the film as a finalist for the

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at the

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. It was a finalist for the

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at the

6th Canadian Screen Awards The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017.

. It won the Best Narrative Feature award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2017.

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* 2016 films 2016 comedy-drama films Canadian comedy-drama films English-language Canadian films Films shot in Toronto Films set in Toronto 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub