A movie actually set in Vancouver will film scenes in the city this week.
Scenes for the movie Seventeen will be filmed on Tuesday, June 17, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Crab Park on a park bench near the water.
On Thursday, the crew will film interior scenes at local diner Deacon's Corner at 101 Main St from noon to 7 p.m. The shoot will also include some exterior scenes at 190 Alexander St of a car driving up and actors getting inside.
Temporary "no stopping zones" will occur on the south side of Alexander Street from Main Street to 150 Alexander St. on Tuesday from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
X/Twitter user @MSTakesPictures shared a photo of the resident notification letter on the social media platform.
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Seventeen: A film about the power of queer chosen family, contemporary Indigenous life
Filmmaker Justin Ducharme tells V.I.A. that he characterizes his latest project, Seventeen, as an ensemble film and a love letter to Vancouver about contemporary Indigenous life and the power of queer chosen family.
The film features three main characters: December (played by newcomer Aalayna), her best friend Tamara (played by Nizhonniya Austin), and Aiden, a twenty-something gay man (played by Taio Gelinas), based loosely on Ducharme himself.
All three lead characters are sex workers, but the film isn't entirely about sex work. The entire film takes place over the course of seventeen hours.
"The film loosely embodies myself and my lived experience as a young, queer Native person moving to Vancouver from a really rural environment and dealing with the complexities that come to city life," he explains. "As a storyteller, I like to make something that I feel fills a gap," adds the Seventeen writer and director.
"My intention with [this film] is this character study of people who also have intersecting identities of being queer, Indigenous, and sex workers."
