Carts of Darkness/Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing
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McGill University (Montreal)
Tuesday February 2, 2010
Screening begins 20h00
Venue: Leacock 219 - Downtown McGill campus
First 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
Awards & Festivals
Festivals:
Golden Sheaf Awards / Short Film and Video Festival, Canada
Mountain Film Festival, USA
Awards:
2008 Winner, Picture This Film Festival, Best Documentary - over 30 minutes
Film site & Reviews
Second 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
2008 Winner Entertainment Industry Council, Prism Award for Original DVD
2008 Winner American Nursing Academy of Nursing Media Award
Film site & Reviews
(For venue information and directions, see the local page.)
