Before Nine is a short fiction that explores issues of identity among Canadians who are subject to racism, alienation and gentrification. It is also a story about friendship and the ways in which sexual and ethnic differences can serve to bind people together in hostile environments - such can be the Canadian urban landscape.
Award-winning filmmaker Hana Abdul is a Torontonian writer/director/producer. Her short films have screened in festivals across the country as well as in the US, UK, Spain and South Africa. Hana is currently working on her second television documentary.