Luk'Luk'I

{{Infobox film

| name = Luk'Luk'I

| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Wayne Wapeemukwa

| producer = Matt Drake
Spencer Hahn

| writer = Eric Buurman
Angela Dawson
Angel Gates
Ken Harrower
Mark McKay
Wayne Wapeemukwa

| starring = Angel Gates
Joe Buffalo
Ken Harrower
Eric Buurman
Angela Dawson

| music = Daniel Ross

| cinematography = Jeremy Cox

| editing =

| studio = Sound & Colour
Thousand Plateaus

| released = {{film date|2017|09|10|TIFF|df=yes}}

| runtime = 89 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Luk'Luk'I (pronounced "lucklucky") is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/toronto-film-festival-announces-canadian-line-up "Toronto Film Festival announces Canadian line-up"]. National Post, August 9, 2017. The feature directorial debut of Wayne Wapeemukwa, the film is an expansion of his earlier short film Luk'Luk'I: Mother, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[http://thetfs.ca/2014/09/08/festival-quickie-wayne-wapeemukwa/ "TFS FESTIVAL QUICKIE: WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA, DIRECTOR OF LUK’LUK’I: MOTHER"]. Toronto Film Scene, September 8, 2014.

Set in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the film centres on five residents of the poverty-stricken neighbourhood. The cast includes Angel Gates, Joe Buffalo, Ken Harrower, Eric Buurman and Angela Dawson. The actors participated directly in writing the screenplay, using their own real-life experiences – including Harrower's experience as a gay man with a disability and Dawson's experience as local underground culture figure "Rollergirl" – to inform and create their characters' storylines.[https://www.tiff.net/the-review/luklukl-bold-and-empathic/ "Luk'Luk'I: Opportunistic and prejudiced, or bold and empathic?"]. Toronto International Film Festival, January 8, 2018.

The film's title refers to the Coast Salish name for the Downtown Eastside.{{cite web |url=https://www.luklukifilm.com/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920044010/https://www.luklukifilm.com/about/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 20, 2017 |title=About the Film |accessdate=19 September 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.vancourier.com/community/vancouver-special/gastown/gastown-the-neighbourhood-at-a-glance-1.725096 |work=Vancouver Courier |title=Gastown: The neighbourhood at a glance |date=5 December 2013 |author=Andrew Fleming}}