The 54-minute documentary “Giants Leap/ À pas de géants”, collaboration with filmmaker Lynsey Hamilton, is a diverse portrait of a changing neighbourhood, Vancouver Downtown South, raising questions of progress, heritage preservation, housing and culture, and it represents the changing values of a society.
Unchecked development overlooks long-term social and economic impacts. Development pressures in Vancouver are erasing old structures, the physical evidence of the past, replacing them with questionable construction choices and driving current residents out of their neighbourhoods. The result is a city that is becoming accessible only for the rich and an architecture that is often criticized as second or third rate.
Will Vancouver neighbourhoods’ characters disappear forever? Will these be replaced by a monoculture of unaffordable housing?

2008 – Heart of the City Festival, Vancouver, BC
2008 – Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, “BOOM! Forum”, curator Nic Harwood
2008 – Carnegie Centre, Vancouver, BC
2008 – Norquay Neighbours, Vancouver, BC
2008 – Les 14e Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone, Vancouver, BC
2007 – Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC