''BAM'' is a 2015

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

animated short film by

Howie Shia Howie Shia is a Canadian animator.Shannon Boklaschuk"Psychedelic noodles on offer in fictional futuristic small-town Saskatchewan" CBC News Saskatchewan, December 3, 2017. He is most noted for his 2015 film ''BAM (film), BAM'', which was a Canadian ...

about a shy young man with a violent temper who struggles to reconcile the two sides of his personality, in a retelling of the myth of

Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the Gr ...

. It was one of the first films created entirely in 4K UltraHD by the NFB. The filmmaker's brothers, hip-hop artist Leo Shia (also known as LEO37) and composer Tim Shia, composed the film's musical score and did the sound editing. Shia says the film was partly inspired by their grandfather, a high-ranking police official in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

who was also a calligrapher and poet, "coming from a tradition of learned gentleman who also partook in violence one way or another." ''BAM'' was produced for the NFB by Maral Mohammadian and Michael Fukushima. The film premiered at the

2015 Toronto International Film Festival The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 10 to 20 September 2015. On 28 July 2015 the first wave of films to be screened at the Festival was announced. Jean-Marc Vallée's ''Demolition'' starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naom ...

and was nominated for an

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Animated Short The Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian animated short film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. ...

at the

4th Canadian Screen Awards Fourth or the fourth may refer to: * the ordinal form of the number 4 * ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971 * Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision * Fourth (music), a musical interval * ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...

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