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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 Smilin' Buddha Cabaret operated at 109 East Hastings Street from 1952 to the late 1980s as a symbol of "cultural vitality," reflecting shifts in the neighbourhood itself. [74] City Opera of Vancouver , the Dancing on the Edge Festival , and other artists regularly perform in DTES venues such as the Carnegie Centre, the Firehall Arts Centre ...
Antoine Bourges is a French-Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. [1] He is most noted for his 2012 mid-length docudrama film East Hastings Pharmacy, which was the winner of the Colin Low Award at the 2013 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, [2] and his 2017 narrative feature film Fail to Appear, which was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics ...
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 of life and death on the street and behind tenement walls.
Pages in category "Documentary films about Vancouver" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... East Hastings Pharmacy; Everything Will Be ...
Balmoral Hotel is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa and released in 2015. [1] The film stars Angel Gates as a First Nations sex worker who dances along Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, in a performance that gradually morphs into a political statement against colonization.
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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 . [64]