Filmmaker Murray Siple spent years making documentaries about extreme sports until a car accident left him a quadriplegic. After taking ten years off, he got back behind the camera to capture a story of a group of homeless men who spend their mornings collecting bottles and cans and their afternoons racing shopping carts down the steep hills of Northern Vancouver. It aired on the Sundance Channel, which doesn’t show any more upcoming screenings currently, but the National Film Board of Canada has posted the entire film online for free.
I’m going to be spending a little over a month in Vancouver for the Olympics this Winter. I just wish this was a year-round sport. I would have loved to see these guys in action in person.
