Luk'Luk'I

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Luk'Luk'I
Directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa
Written byEric Buurman
Angela Dawson
Angel Gates
Ken Harrower
Mark McKay
Wayne Wapeemukwa
Produced byMatt Drake
Spencer Hahn
StarringAngel Gates
Joe Buffalo
Ken Harrower
Eric Buurman
Angela Dawson
CinematographyJeremy Cox
Music byDaniel Ross
Production
companies
Sound & Colour
Thousand Plateaus
Release date
  • 10 September 2017 (2017-09-10)(TIFF)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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

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]

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References

  1. "Toronto Film Festival announces Canadian line-up". National Post , August 9, 2017.
  2. "TFS FESTIVAL QUICKIE: WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA, DIRECTOR OF LUK’LUK’I: MOTHER". Toronto Film Scene, September 8, 2014.
  3. "Luk'Luk'I: Opportunistic and prejudiced, or bold and empathic?". Toronto International Film Festival, January 8, 2018.
  4. "About the Film" . Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. Andrew Fleming (5 December 2013). "Gastown: The neighbourhood at a glance". Vancouver Courier.
  6. "Toronto: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Captures Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter , September 17, 2017.
  7. "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions" Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine . Now , December 6, 2017.
  8. "Luk'Luk'I among winners at Canada's directors guild awards". CBC News, October 29, 2017.
  9. "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.