Streets Of Plenty - 6 of 7 - Vancouver Homeless Doc

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An unprecedented look into the underworld of Vancouver's downtown eastside ghetto, this 65 minute documentary follows one man's 30 day experiment of joining the thousands of homeless, ill, and addicted, who survive the streets of Vancouver's cold, wet December. He starts off with nothing but a pair of underwear. Where he ends up is a place he never knew existed, even though its a place he passed by every day. This is the perfect film for anyone who wants to see first hand what life is like on Vancouver's streets, but doesn't want to risk murder from gang violence, contracting a fatal or chronic disease, or a life-long addiction to crack or heroin.

Nominated for Best Feature Doc, Best Direction in a Feature Doc, and Best Sound Design at the 2011 Leo Awards.
Official Selection 2010 Oxford FIlm Festival
Official Selection 2009 Queens International Film Festival

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Vancouver 2010 Olympics
• Downtown Eastside
• Vancouver Homelessness
• Homeless Documentary
• Addiction
• Poverty
• Olympics
• Olympic Resistance

[Tamara92asdf]

The guy may come across as an asshole at times but I still thought it was a good documentary. I definitely enjoyed watching it. He just shouldn't have injected heroin for his first time having never taken it before. Having no opiate tolerance and just injecting a bag of heroin like that for your first time is pretty dangerous, how could he not expect to have a bad reaction to it?

[jamescs1969]

That woman taught him how to shoot up WTF!

[kail443]

@TheLucky71ful it depends on the person you must be weak....Smoke Bud not welly loser FAGS

[00098765574]

yeh this is the core part of the video

the mayor or We can say 'no more homeless' so easily

because we never put ourselves into these homeless positions

i saw hateful comments about this docu for being kinda joke

but still i think and thank that brave young man who just threw himself into homeless community and actually try to act like them just to understand them

[wildshotsintheair]

To ward the end..he was starting to feel and he understands, some what...

most homeless people can;t go home...a home is not a room where you pay too stay. thats a nessity. shelter.

been on the streets for yrs. across Canada. from east too west. addicts can not go home..

[SethHesio]

This guy is fucking stupid. He doesn't know the difference between making a documentary and just trying out the lifestyle. Was it really necessary to do this? I don't think so. If you want to watch a real documentary check out "Black Tar Heroin". It's on YouTube.

[RoomGrow]

My opinion is that your still a clown, but I will give you a thumbs up for going through with it, You'll still never know how it is to be addicted to Heroin for years on end and that struggle, that feeling of the first time use...you will never get that again.

[Buntzums]

great advertising for Genesis security.....

[turner593]

@Tamara92asdf ya no shite and the lady at insite seemed to know that it was his first time what would she felt like if he died .

[TheOccupyMovie]

@MrHandlebarHarry keep watching, the narrator says what you just did word for word, he is aware of his position, not denying it. This, he acknoweldges, IS the issue, that we can always escape, while they can't.

[pejb83]

bastard lives in a nice apartment

[torontosorewristhex]

i would have like to see him stick it out strung out on the streets he coped out