Streets Of Plenty - 7 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

[absoluette]

after watching this i am insulted at the way he approached the downtown eastside, going down there and doing crack and heroin does not show anything to us, there is just too much to grasp and so much more then what we just saw, this to me is a failed and pointless experiement

i feel like this was almost a mockery of the people who have to survive this day after day.

[CoreyOgilvie]

@absoluette would it better had we not done any filming at all? then you could learn about things from your comfy apartment or classroom, and never see what their lives are really like? Misha was a right-wing minded libertarian going in, he came out quite different. To say what he did was a mockery spits in the face of ethnographic journalism

[Bolooee]

Good job in my opinion.

[wildshotsintheair]

East hastings, is the roughest toughest street ,

even 96th street in Edmonton back in the early 80's , wasnt crack then..was jus beer ,whiskey ,woman and cocain ,for me.

done my share of  crack and someone's share also .

and as for the streets of ,Toronto,.. Toronto is a pussie city compared, too east side of Vancouver , and 96th street of Edmonton. during the 80's , havnt returned to Edmonton. since i left 89.

[MMA4Lazy1]

@MMA4Lazy1 fuck it wont let me upload the link but the cop was kicked of the force and arrested for selling marijuana and breaking and enrering to commit extortion

[MMA4Lazy1]

P.S the cop in the beginning is now a criminal if you don't believe me here is the truth.

[TheIceman515069]

these people cant do that!! they dont have a comfy apartment to come home to after they get high or are coming off of drugs and have nowhere to go! the ONE THING that Misha could have done to actually compare life on the streets to his own life was the one thing he was too scared to do! yes, just like he says, the difference is, he was able to wake up from this nightmare! if you want to call that ethnographic journalism, then thats fine, but as far as im concerned, he has NO idea!

[TheIceman515069]

@CoreyOgilvie its nice to know that his opinion had in fact changed about the homeless, at least that can be said. however, he tells people who work at Mcdonalds and KFC to quit their jobs and "jump on the bandwagon"? who the fuck does he think he is? he should be ashamed of himself for the way he mocks and ridicules the homeless! if he wants a more accurate comparison, he should have stayed there for the last 5 days BUT he was too chicken shit! he wanted to go back to his "COMFY APARTMENT!"

[AworriedCanadian]

Yeah, he needs a part two - a more structured approach. I'll consider this a pilot film.

[CaseModVideos]

Fascinating - what a fresh and real way to do it. To go there and EXPERIENCE it. All these armchair Quarterbacks slamming him for trying drugs with the East-siders. That is what made the whole thing authentic to me. All other Documentaries are made by straight, non-participants. This guy was straight but he took on the project with complete absorption. Major kudos.

[sethRichards44]

best part is where this mother fucker smoked crack ... TWICE!!!!!! lmao then slammed some smack