Besides being the first movie shot almost entirely on Salt Spring Island (last year’s The Interior only spent half its running time there), RAW* is almost certainly the only feature film that’s ever taken a hard look at the dirty underworld of bootleg organic milk.

In a premise almost worthy of Seinfeld, crazy mixed-up drug puppy Jakob is sentenced to six months on his hippie uncle’s farm, where he eventually learns to chill over the daily yoga breakfasts.

An unpaid debt back in Vancouver keeps the dramatic conflict boiling, however, especially when Jakob is forced to broker a deal between two very different types of criminal element.

Completed as a ballsy final project for the Vancouver Film School, writer-director David I. Strasser’s debut compensates for its more eye-rolling problems with admirable technical élan and a young lead, Jesse Platt, who commands the film like he just walked in from the CAA.

Village 8 Cinemas Theatre 6, December 1 (6 p.m.); Squamish Lil’Wat Cultural Centre, December 3 (12:30 p.m.)