Fix: The Story Of An Addicted City

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September 10, 2002
Toronto
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Production Details

Executive Producer
Gary Marcuse
Producer
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Betty Carson
Kirk Tougas
Director
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Kirk Tougas
Director of Photography
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Kirk Tougas
Music
Salvador Ferreras
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Dennis Burke
Writer
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Kirk Tougas
Editor
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Reginald Harkema
Kirk Tougas
Cast
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
Nettie Wild
92 minutes, 2002

Ann Livingston is the spiritually charged organizer of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). The situation in Vancouver’s downtown East Side is a tragedy of nightmarish proportions: addicts commit felonies and openly shoot up in the streets, heroin is 75 per cent cheaper than it is anywhere else in the country, and one person overdoses every day. Ann and her group drive around like guerrilla freedom fighters, delivering a coffin to the city council and asking for a safe injection site for addicts. Unbelievably, the conservative mayor becomes an ally. On the other hand, community business leaders and property owners, believing a safe injection site will only encourage drug use, want tougher laws. Advocates from both groups take to the streets. Is the economy more important than people’s lives? The overworked police, stuck in the middle, only have the power to maintain order and liken the situation to shovelling water.

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