Directed by: Sean Patrick Shaul | 97 min | Canada
You don’t need to know a lot about punk rock to love Mr. Chi Pig. Born in Edmonton as Kendall Chinn (aka Kenny), Mr. Chi Pig was the front man for one of the biggest names in the first wave of Canadian punk rock: SNFU. Like a lot of those original bands, they never found fame themselves but they influenced an entire generation of musicians from Jello Biafra and Moe Berg to Corb Lund, Matthew Good and Hot Hot Heat. As the band's visibility faded, Kenny's world filled with drugs and alcohol, and he moved closer and closer to suicide and living on the street. What surprised everyone, including Mr. Chi Pig himself, was that his drug addiction masked schizophrenia. Reluctant to take drugs to treat it at first, he quickly realized that he was already heavily self-medicating just to deal with the day-to-day, and slowly, his life began to turn around.
