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- Shut Up And Say Something follows acclaimed international spoken word artist Shane Koyczan on an emotional road trip to reconnect with the father he never knew. Seen and heard by millions worldwide, Shane's poignant and powerful poems tackle everything from bullying to body image - but behind his larger-than-life stage persona is a private and awkward man. As Shane unravels the story behind his troubled childhood, we get a powerful and intimate look at how a master wordsmith mines the scars of his past for truth, acceptance and the most important poem of his life.
- The forty plus year career of Foncie Pulice, a Vancouver street photographer, is presented, he who worked the Granville Street commercial strip from the mid 1930s to the late 1970s. This documentary is comprised primarily of only a small handful of his multitude of still photographs, of which are there are no official archives as he culled his negatives once a year. These photographs document the daily lives of the many people who passed by downtown Vancouver over that forty year period, some who came specifically to have their photograph taken, while others had no idea they were going to be photographed until Foncie snapped the photo and he or his associate handed the subjects his business card for them to pickup their photo at a later date. As such, his millions of photos are scattered in the scrapbooks of people who had anything to do with downtown Vancouver over those years. These photos also document the changing face of Vancouver as well as the times. Interspersed, surviving members of Foncie's family discuss how and why he got into the business, why he was so good at his job, what spelled the end of his career, and the legacy he leaves as a documentarian of Vancouver life.
- When Canadian brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war torn West African country of their childhood to re-shoot their father's photos for a documentary, they also found a nation whose own photographic memory was destroyed by war
- Approximately two years in the life of theater producer James Pollard is presented. The genesis of this documentary is shown to be an agreement between James and his filmmaker cousin, Carmen Pollard, to document the final years of his life in an effort to find some meaning to his diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer a few years earlier while he was in his mid-forties. The diagnosis came at a difficult time in his life, it which followed the break-up of his first marriage to Barbara Pollard. The film delves into the effect of James' health and medical condition most specifically on three people in his life, his and Barbara's two twenty-something children, Emma Pollard and Desmond Pollard, and James' fiancée, Hayley Broker. James and Hayley entered into their relationship knowing full well of the diagnosis, with Hayley, a physician, having insight into the medical issues behind the diagnosis while being cognizant that she is not part of his medical team. The film largely focuses on how James deals with what he knows is the near end of his life. He wants those in his life to be engaged in the process if they indeed want to be involved. But he also ends up treating his life much like he would one of his theater productions, with the final act, his post-life, he hoping will be a successful ten thousand year experiment.
- A number of British Columbia-based creative artists - from visual artists such as painters and carvers, to writers, to musicians, to a landscape architect - speak about what home means to them, both in a general sense stemming from their background and experience, and as it relates to their craft. An ethnobotanist, a developer and a philanthropist also speak about the same from their unique perspectives, with the addition of speaking about that art piece in not being artists themselves per se. In both groups, the place could be a geopolitical entity such as a city, a physical space of some other kind, and/or a state of mind.