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This award-winning documentary film, shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada’s notorious Downtown Eastside, caught the eyes of audiences, film makers and critics worldwide for its unusual and sensitive depiction of life on the street. Through A Blue Lens documents a year
East Hastings Pharmacy is a 2012 Canadian docufiction film, directed by Antoine Bourges. [1] The film is a portrait of a methadone clinic for drug addicts in the East Hastings neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, scripted and performed through an improvisational process with various real-life drug addicts, with professional actress Shauna Hansen playing the role of the pharmacist.
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and sex work.
The 100-block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, the heart of that city's "skid road" neighborhood, lies on a historical skid road. [63] The Vancouver Skid Road was part of a complex of such roads in the dense forests surrounding the Hastings Mill and adjacent to the settlement of Granville, Burrard Inlet ( Gastown ).
The group believes that all drug users should have their own rights and freedoms. The group's members have been actively involved in lobbying for support of Insite, North America's first safe injection site, located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. [3] Its board of directors consists entirely of current and former drug addicts. [4]
Documentary films about drug addiction, a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [2] It used to be a part of the decommissioned Highway 7A . In the central business district of downtown Vancouver , it is known as West Hastings Street ; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards ...
However, it was found that addiction played a larger role for homeless living on the street rather than a shelter. [10] There is a 31× higher death rate for homeless females and a 9× higher death rate for males over the average Canadian mortality rates. In Vancouver, homeless men constitute about 70 percent of the homeless population.