RoachTrip (2003)

Directed by

Eric Denis

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

How it feels

Two punk friends named Roach and Smash travel across Canada from Montreal to the Okanagan Valley. They want to leave the streets of Montreal behind and find a better life.

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What happens

RoachTrip is a 2003 Canadian documentary about two punks, Roach and his friend Smash down the invisible punk highway across Canada. It captures their goal to escape the streets of Montreal as they cross 5,000 km (3,107 mi) to reach the "promised land" of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. The film is an autobiographical coming-of-age chronicle told in an intimate point-of-view style, directed by Eric "Roach" Denis of EyeSteelFilm, a Montreal-based documentary production company, as a continuation of the autobiographical journey that he had started by being portrayed as one of the main characters in Daniel Cross award-winning documentary S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic where Eric Denis contributed with his RoachCam. The film RoadTrip became the directorial debut film of Eric "Roach" Denis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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