East Hastings Pharmacy (2012)

Directed by

Antoine Bourges

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

47 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This docufiction film follows people at a methadone clinic in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Real-life drug addicts worked with a professional actress to improvise scenes that show their daily lives.

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What happens

East Hastings Pharmacy is a 2012 Canadian docufiction film, directed by Antoine Bourges. The film is a portrait of a methadone clinic for drug addicts in the East Hastings neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, scripted and performed through an improvisational process with various real-life drug addicts, with professional actress Shauna Hansen playing the role of the pharmacist. The film premiered in March 2012 at the Cinéma du Réel film festival. It was the winner of the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2013 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, and cowinner with Rodrigo Barriuso's For Dorian of the Lindalee Tracey Award at the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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