Video Resources

Video Resources

Through a Blue Lens, Veronica Alice Mannix, 1999


Flipping the World - Drugs Through a Blue Lens, 2000
A follow up to "Through a Blue Lens", Flipping the World reconnects with some of the addicts featured in the first film, and the high school students.


Streets of Plenty, Corey Ogilvie, 2010
*follow links at the end for parts 2-7



Internet Luring into the Sex-trade, 2010
A short film discussing how young people enter into the sex trade, and the different recruiting practices used by pimps and sex-trafficers.


Play It Safe, NFB, 2009
Film captured auto-biographies made by at-risk youth, with help from peer film-makers


Carts of Darkness, Murray Siple, 2008
A more light hearted film than the previous two. Carts of Darkness profiles the lives of binner's who race shopping carts down North Vancouver's hills


Finding Dawn, Christine Welsh, 2006
Finding Dawn focuses on the plight of aboriginal women in Vancouver and Saskatoon. The story follows an investigation into the life and times of Downtown Eastside resident Dawn Teresa Crey; believed to be a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton.


Cottonland, Nance Ackerman, 2006
Cottonland is centred around an Oxycontin epidemic in small town Cape Breton, and how this prescription painkiller has created a culture of dependancy and abuse. The focus is from the perspective of the user.


The Yard Blues, Erica Ferrari, 2008
Erica Ferrari spends a year working and living with sex-workers in the Bronx. The story is told through a series of interviews with sex-workers, and covers the cycle of prostitution and addiction; from the beginning. 


Escape Artists: Street Youth/Street Culture, 1998
Escape Artists documents an outdoor art festival called Planet Struck, that was produced by with and for at risk youth in Toronto, and everybody else. It was held outside beneath the Bathurst St. viaduct near Lakeshore in Toronto. This video features Toronto's very best breakdancing, MC'ing and graffiti circa 1998, as well as powerful street theatre by Cobblestone Youth Theatre, songs, rants and much more.


A Day in the Life: Homeless Outreach, 2010, VPD