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Constable Al Arseneault shows a slide of a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old girl. "Does this look like a drug addict ?" he asks his audience of high-school students. "No !" respond the students. The officer shows another slide of the same girl, six months later. Her face is bruised and covered in festering sores. "She's on the needle. She didn't know she had an addictive personality. She does now." Two veteran constables discovered that the bleak images of addiction helped them to inject a grim dose of reality into their school presentations. They began documenting on video the lives of people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - the site of Canada's worst drug and HIV crisis. The result is a film that allows drug abusers to talk honestly about who they are. It is also a story about their relationship with the officers behind the camera.

Canada - 1999 - 52 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Veronica Alice Mannix Image Daniel C. Mannix Son Jonathan Ritchie Montage Shelly Hamer Musique Dennis Burke

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