Luk'Luk'I (2017)

Directed by

Wayne Wapeemukwa

Genre

docufiction, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five residents of a poor neighborhood in Vancouver struggle with poverty and personal challenges during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The actors play characters based on their own real-life experiences.

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What happens

Luk'Luk'I (pronounced "lucklucky") is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. 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. 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. The film's title refers to the Coast Salish name for the Downtown Eastside. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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