Olympics crazies, pro hockey lunatics, wacky politics, rich music and shocking spectacle- this is VVII.

Vancouver has become known on the world stage to spawn various rebel social movements. It is a city that artist and animator Heath Tait took his camera to the streets for a series of dramatic documentary Vagabond stories in the years straddling the 2010 Winter Olympics - the politics, the people, the scene. The Olympic Games were a Canadian smash, a wild party in the streets. In 2011 the Vancouver Canucks would bring about a 2nd street smash - of a different sort. Olympics, pro hockey, wacky politics, rich music and shocking spectacle - this is VVII.—Heath Tait

A sweeping musical depiction of the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 Canucks Stanley Cup street parties with a socio-political structural emphasis on homelessness and the city's propensity for breeding various rebel social movements. 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 next to 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 and 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 in video, boasts of volume and emotion typically the domain of cinema via its sprawling musical adaptations and tense subjects. PLOT SUMMARY II: 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. 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 started as theory in Vancouver 2011, along with many other socio-political-economic movements over the years. Legendary D.O.A. front-runner 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 VV series.—Heath Tait