12 Aug 1998
Megacities
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens
A decade of life and death in the skids
In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.
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