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Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing

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Lethbridge, AB
Tuesday November 24, 2009
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Galileo's Gallery, Students' Union Building, University of Lethbridge

First Film:Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing

Outreach nurses administer healthcare on the streets of Vancouver's downtown Eastside.

Nettie Wild / Canada / 2008 / 40 min

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) is an educational kit (including a DVD, subtitled in French, with special features and a bilingual Teaching Guide) created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control's Street Nurse Program provide health care to the people living in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Designed and produced by the street nurses themselves in collaboration with community members, Bevel Up offers instructors and students access to the experience of an entire community of health care practitioners who work with drug using populations.

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users, and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) is a co-production of the Street Nurse Program of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the National Film Board of Canada with financial support from Health Canada and the BC Nurses Union. Created in collaboration with Canada Wild Productions Ltd.

Trailer

Credits

Directed by
Nettie Wild

Editor
Michael Brockington

Cinematographer
Kirk Tougas

Location Sound
Jeff Henschel
Jon Ritchie
Kirk Tougas

Producers for the Street Nurse Program
Fiona Gold and Juanita Maginley

Producers for Canada Wild Productions
Betsy Carson and Nettie Wild

Producer for the National Film Board
Svend-Erik Eriksen

Executive Producer for the National Film Board
Rina Fraticelli

DVD Design and Animation by
Ian Kirby and Caleb Bouchard
Sequence

Original Concept
Caroline Brunt

Vancouver Street Nurse Production Team
Caroline Brunt
Fiona Gold
Liz James
Elaine Jones
Janine Stevenson

Awards & Festivals

2007, Winner, British Columbia's Provincial Health Officer's Award for Excellence in Public Health
2008, Winner, Entertainment Industry Council, Prism Award for Original DVD
2008, Winner, American Nursing Academy of Nursing Media Award

2008, Nomination, Notable Videos for Adults, National Library Association

Film site & Reviews

» official site

» The Tyee

Get Involved

» BC Center for Disease Control

» Health Canada

» Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

Second Film: Carts of Darkness

Homeless men in North Vancouver race shopping carts while collecting bottles.

Murray Siple / Canada / 2008 / 55 min

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing.

Enduring hardships from everyday life on the streets of Vancouver, this sub-culture depicts street life as much more than stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The films takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face, and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.

Read an interview with director Murray Siple in Ability Magazine here.

Trailer

Credits

Writer: Murray Siple
Director: Murray Siple
Producer: Tracey Friesen
Editor: Michael Brockington
Director of photography: Christian Bégin
1st unit Cinematographer: Kevin Shepit
2nd unit Cinematographer: Mike Mckinlay
Executive producer: Rina Fraticelli