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Carts of Darkness and Bevel Up

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Victoria
Wednesday December 9, 2009
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Camosun College, Young Building, Room 216 (Gibson Auditorium)

Two recent films from the West Coast ask important questions about two of our most vulnerable populations. _Carts of Darkness_ focusses on homeless people who race shopping carts through the streets of Vancouver, while _Bevel Up_ looks at nurses on the downtown Eastside.

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

» official site

» Interview with the Filmmaker

» Row Three Review

Get Involved

» Social Development Department Vancouver

» British Columbia Resources

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.