Shacktown draws on the personal experiences of filmmaker Mike Nichol
A North Vancouver filmmaker is set to release his latest short film, Shacktown, next week, reflecting on the experiences he and his friends had growing up on the North Shore.
Nichol is an emerging Black Haida filmmaker who was born and raised in North Vancouver’s Lynn Valley. His family is from G̱aw Tlagee , an Indigenous Canadian village on Graham Island in Haida Gwaii, B.C. “I wasn’t even the one doing it, but you’re hanging around the wrong crowd, and it can happen. That was where my parents came in and helped me,” Nichol said.
But Shacktown isn’t just about those fork-in-the-road moments, he said, adding that it also shows how some urban Indigenous kids navigate the world on a daily basis.
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