[van-announce] S.P.I.T. opens tomorrow!

[Diana Wilson]

Squeegee Punks In Traffic

Now Playing at Tinseltown Cinema

88 W. Pender

showtimes: 12:55 pm, 3:10pm, 5:20 pm, 7:35 pm, 9:45 pm

(starting Friday, March 7th)


" ...ROCKS WITH THE URGENCY OF YOUTH AND THE
WOUNDED ANGER OF THE WRONGFULLY ACCUSED."

FOUR STARS - MONTREAL GAZETTE

www.spit.ca

FILMMAKERS DAN CROSS AND ROACH WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE AT EACH SCREENING.

Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he's rebellious, 
loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera 
to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's 
a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM is positioned behind enemy 
lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being 
hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality 
of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world's 
most prosperous countries, classified as thugs, criminals, and 
enemies. These kids refuse to obey, assimilate, and conform to 
society's values - their beliefs and realities are scarred into their 
flesh in the form of piercings, tattoos, track marks, bruised veins, 
rotting teeth, gangrene, scurvy...  S.P.I.T. shatters the windshield 
between Us and Them. Roach's camera acts as the hammer: hard, 
forceful, direct; impacting with the force of an actual life. Daniel 
Cross' camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of 
individual lives, mirrored upon the shards of flying glass.

This is a collaborative film that seizes Punk's "do-it-yourself" 
ethos. Local punkers Deadly Pale, Locos and others contributed 
guttural emotion to the soundtrack. Artist Rick Trembles supplied an 
apocalyptic animation sequence from Roach's imagination. Youth and 
rebellion fuel this film.

Daniel Cross makes films with people who traditionally aren't given a 
voice. "The Street: a film with the homeless" has won audience awards 
and critical acclaim for its frank and compassionate portrayal of 
three homeless men. During the making of The Street, Cross began to 
notice more and more homeless young people. Kids sleeping in 
doorways, squeegeeing for spare change, stepping into traffic and 
announcing their poverty. Feared by motorists and hunted by police. 
S.P.I.T., Squeegee Punks in Traffic, was created within the bleak 
reality of this new generation gap. This is an independent, auteur 
film: daring, cinematic and urgent.
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