Melanie Wood reveals a conflicted man; a bashful alchemist who creates explosive rhetorical fireworks from the stuff of daily life
Date/Time: Oct 7 2017, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendarCost: $17.00
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In 2017, VIFF continues to expand the frame to create multi-experiential streams that include some of the best cinema from around the world fused with related talks and events in a unique Film+ model. VIFF audiences and creators have a chance to discover, discuss and connect more at one of North America's most accessible festivals, in one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.
With more than 300 films from 73 countries, VIFF 2016 audiences were treated to narratives and documentaries that entertained, informed, inspired and left viewers in awe of the filmmaking talent that exists here in Canada and from creators around the world. Look here for a list of
2016 award-winners. We can't wait to see what the 2017 Festival line-up!
BC Spotlight Gala | Shut Up and Say Something
Sea to Sky | Youth | BC Spotlight
This special event commences with the presentation of nine awards to creators from BC and the rest of Canada and then culminates with a screening of Shut Up and Say Something, Melanie Wood’s intimate look at internationally acclaimed spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan. With incredible candour, Koyczan shares his momentous and deeply personal journey to finally meet his estranged father. The result is his most important poem yet--and the more intimate his words are, the more universal they become.
Gala Screening: Shut Up and Say Something
There are those among us who still tremble at the memory of the school-yard threat: "You die at four." Internationally acclaimed spoken word artist Shane Koyczan gives a poignant and powerful voice to the inaudible and the imperceptible: the bullied, the awkward, the visibly different. In her entrancing and engrossing documentary, Melanie Wood reveals a conflicted man; a bashful alchemist who creates explosive rhetorical fireworks from the stuff of daily life.
Working with Shane’s longtime friend and collaborator, filmmaker Stuart Gillies, Wood brings us an intimate and honest portrait of the man who rocked the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with the mind-blowing poem "We Are More (Define Canada)." With lucid candour, Yellowknife-born, Penticton-based Koyczan allows us to join him on a deeply personal and momentous journey to finally meet his long-estranged father. The result is his most important and most difficult poem yet; an ode to the parent he never, and yet always, had. The best indicator that we’re dealing with someone extraordinary is that the more intimate his words are, the more universal the truths they expose become…
Please note: this screening of Shut Up and Say Something is preceded by an Awards ceremony.
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The Vancouver International Film Festival 2017 Events