Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning helped turn Toronto into an indie-rock mecca in the mid 2000s. Not unlike the story of Seattle’s grunge explosion: Cobain in flannel. Or the New York revival led by The Strokes. The movement they created marked the apex of Toronto’s metamorphosis from a sleepy metropolis to a beacon of hipster cool largely driven by the city’s endlessly inventive music scene. “It wasn’t so hard to be an artist around 2000 in Toronto,” says Broken Social Scene’s Jason Colette in It’s All Gonna Break, a new documentary about the band in this era. “Rent was cheap. The creativity was on fire.”

One of the band’s friends, Stephen Chung, had a camera. He wasn’t setting out to make a documentary—he was a participant, immersed in the expansive Broken Social Scene family of wildly talented artists. Before the iPhone era, Chung captured the raw, unguarded chemistry of the band: late-night jams in cramped apartments before soaring rents, the boundless creative energy of the time, and the beautiful chaos of something none of them saw coming—Lollapalooza, Letterman, film soundtracks, critical acclaim, and global success.

For years, the footage sat unseen, tucked away until the moment was right. Now, with fresh interviews from Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, and band members, It’s All Gonna Break opens the time capsule of never-before-seen footage that captures the intimacy and magic of the era. This isn’t just a retrospective—it’s a front-row seat to Broken Social Scene’s rise, their reckoning with fame, their defiance of convention, and how they came to define a generation of indie rock. Chung’s kaleidoscopic visual diary is a remarkable coming-of-age story of friends and artists forging their path, growing up together, and creating something unforgettable on their own terms.