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Vancouver Vagabond Trailer, 3 Min.

2013-05-14T20:11:16.981Z

http://vancouvervagabond.com

Vancouver Vagabond, a bold feature premiere and the 1st of a docudrama film trilogy from creator Heath Tait, explores his precarious journey as an indie filmmaker in and around Hollywood North, the citys politics and its multi-colour character.

With the approach of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the Vagabond series reveal a dramatic slice of both the citys and Canadas back story, historic and contemporary, informative and provocatively entertaining.

The story draws from sumptuous cinematic film imagery (16, S16, 35mm), some of the best material from Heaths media history and from over 200 raw, street-sweeping documentary video hours of developments and discussions, politicians, activists, analysts, journalists, business people, arts administrators, film industry associates, friends, family and the list goes on.

Heaths personal story is seated firmly within a landscape of postmodern times, archival footage from five sources detailing Canadian and American times past.

Zany, extreme characters alongside a rich tapestry of musical forms and FX enchant this film-within-a film inside story of Pictorial Forest, an innovative award winning short animation odyssey that inspired from its own creative realization, this dramatic documentary feature film.
A bonus, the 15-minute multi-technique animation Pictorial Forest is to be paired with the feature film for its exclusive commercial release.

Vancouver Vagabond Trailer, 90 sec.

2013-05-14T20:08:08.277Z

Vancouver Vagabond Trailer, 60 Sec.

2013-05-14T20:03:25.935Z

http://vancouvervagabond.com

Vancouver Vagabond, a bold feature premiere and the 1st of a docudrama film trilogy from creator Heath Tait, explores his precarious journey as an indie filmmaker in and around Hollywood North, the citys politics and its multi-colour character.

With the approach of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the Vagabond series reveal a dramatic slice of both the citys and Canadas back story, historic and contemporary, informative and provocatively entertaining.

The story draws from sumptuous cinematic film imagery (16, S16, 35mm), some of the best material from Heaths media history and from over 200 raw, street-sweeping documentary video hours of developments and discussions, politicians, activists, analysts, journalists, business people, arts administrators, film industry associates, friends, family and the list goes on.

Heaths personal story is seated firmly within a landscape of postmodern times, archival footage from five sources detailing Canadian and American times past.

Zany, extreme characters alongside a rich tapestry of musical forms and FX enchant this film-within-a film inside story of Pictorial Forest, an innovative award winning short animation odyssey that inspired from its own creative realization, this dramatic documentary feature film.

A bonus, the 15-minute multi-technique animation Pictorial Forest is to be paired with the feature film for its exclusive commercial release.

Vancouver Vagabond II (3:45 Trailer)

2013-05-14T20:00:42.773Z

Vancouver Vagabond II

A Black eyed Beauty's Street people Story

A sweeping musical depiction of the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 Canucks Stanley Cup street parties with a structural emphasis on homelessness and the city's propensity for breeding various rebel social movements.

Vancouver Vagabond is a feature documentary series revealing interlinked, interesting and dramatic stories in the years straddling the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Semi-autobiographical, the features detail filmmaker Heath Tait's trials and adventures against the post modern social, political and cultural backdrop of his times, into the new Millennium.

This second feature of the Vancouver Vagabond series has arisen in conjunction with the city's history over mainly the last 2 years, the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, while delving into the past to tell the comical back-story of how the city managed the big world event through the crash, and the ironic and painfully persistent issue of homelessness.

The demographics of VVII are enormous whether for the 2010 Olympics or that of London 2012, or the following Winter Olympics 2014. Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins or otherwise, Pro Hockey has a fan base millions in its number.

The 2011 riot's shocking violence reveals the perverse combined effects of pro sport patriotism, super-heated social media narcissism & mobbing, ironic urban anonymity and alcohol.

At this time of economic upheaval and ongoing shock, the zany politics of Vancouver provide a framework within which these two large street spectacles take place. Poverty and homelessness was the key issue of the last two Vancouver elections. Occupy activism, having started as theory in Vancouver 2011, along with many other socio-political-economic movements over the years, will be resurging 2012 as the simmering enraged world reheats and reloads.

Legendary D.O.A. frontrunner Joe "Shithead" Keithley and his "Hardcore" music permeate the movie, yet another Vancouver original.

And for the Cannabis community mainly there is the ongoing story of "Prince of Pot" activist Marc Emery, extradited to the U.S. south and in prison shortly following the Olympics.

Vancouver Vagabond II is for a mature audience as it contains coarse language, drug use and nudity, violence, lunatic drunks and wacky politicians.

This second feature of the series harmonizes well with the other features, and though each feature is complete as it's own independent story, greater integrity and revealing intrigue inevitably is to be discovered when viewing all content side by side in the greater series.

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Vancouver Vagabond II (1:52 Trailer/ D.O.A.'s Hardcore '81 "Slumlord")

2013-05-14T19:58:19.424Z

VVII
A Black eyed Beauty's Street people Story

Some you win.

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics was a Canadian smash, a world record for Olympic Gold, a wild party in the streets that bespoke new lofty heights for the northerners against their muscled North American neighbor, the USA.

Some 'ya lose.

June 15, 2011
Not since 1994 did the Vancouver Canucks make it to the Stanley Cup finals. Again they did battle to the 7th and final game with their southern neighbors, the street party culminating in a smash of a different sort.

The rage, the sadness, the ongoing humiliation of a city terribly overpriced, homelessness the primary issue of Vancouver's last two elections straddling the Olympics. We take a quirky ride through a zany caricatured back-story of the city's recent governments, revealing their fate in carrying the big world event beyond the 2008 crash.

Olympics, pro hockey, wacky politics, rich music & shocking spectacle- this is VVII.

Heath Tait's autobiographical 1st feature Vancouver Vagabond won considerable acclaim with its cinematic diversity and sumptuous real-life story grit.

VVII, though shot entirely on video, boasts a volume and emotion typically the domain of cinema via its sprawling musical adaptations and tense subjects.

Both are to be released soon along with a huge range of franchise video projects, the 3rd feature scheduled for 2013 leading into the 2014 Winter Olympics.

VancouverVagabond.com