Luk'Luk'I
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| Luk'Luk'I | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Wayne Wapeemukwa |
| Written by | Eric Buurman Angela Dawson Angel Gates Ken Harrower Mark McKay Wayne Wapeemukwa |
| Produced by | Matt Drake Spencer Hahn |
| Starring | Angel Gates Joe Buffalo Ken Harrower Eric Buurman Angela Dawson |
| Cinematography | Jeremy Cox |
| Music by | Daniel Ross |
Production companies | Sound & Colour Thousand Plateaus |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Luk'Luk'I (pronounced "lucklucky") is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] The feature directorial debut of Wayne Wapeemukwa, the film is an expansion of his earlier short film Luk'Luk'I: Mother, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
Set in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the film centres on five residents of the poverty-stricken neighbourhood. The cast includes Angel Gates, Joe Buffalo, Ken Harrower, Eric Buurman and Angela Dawson. The actors participated directly in writing the screenplay, using their own real-life experiences – including Harrower's experience as a gay man with a disability and Dawson's experience as local underground culture figure "Rollergirl" – to inform and create their characters' storylines.[3]
The film's title refers to the Coast Salish name for the Downtown Eastside.[4][5]
Awards and accolades[edit]
At TIFF, the film won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.[6] In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian films.[7]
Wapeemukwa also won the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award.[8]
At the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival, Luk'Luk'I won the "Best BC Film Award".[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "Toronto Film Festival announces Canadian line-up". National Post, August 9, 2017.
- ^ "TFS FESTIVAL QUICKIE: WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA, DIRECTOR OF LUK’LUK’I: MOTHER". Toronto Film Scene, September 8, 2014.
- ^ "Luk'Luk'I: Opportunistic and prejudiced, or bold and empathic?". Toronto International Film Festival, January 8, 2018.
- ^ "About the Film". Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ Andrew Fleming (5 December 2013). "Gastown: The neighbourhood at a glance". Vancouver Courier.
- ^ "Toronto: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Captures Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2017.
- ^ "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions" Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine. Now, December 6, 2017.
- ^ "Luk'Luk'I among winners at Canada's directors guild awards". CBC News, October 29, 2017.
- ^ "VIFF Announces BC and Canadian Award Winners for the 36th Annual Festival" (Press release). Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
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