Trevor Duplessis

Twenty-five long years after his time in the limelight, former child actor Cody Lightning tries to revive his fortunes with a self-produced sequel to Smoke Signals in this smart, irreverent new comedy.

Over the spring, summer, and fall of 2020 while COVID restrictions came and went, six people with lived experience of homelessness in Edmonton, Alberta told their stories in their own words. Those words formed five-minute monologue scripts, and the original interviewees reviewed the text, and made changes where they wished. Over the fall of 2021 and winter of 2022 actors rehearsed and recorded those monologues to camera.