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Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens(2007)
Status: Released
Date: 2007-11-30
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Time: 1h 14m
A decade of life and death in the skids
Overview:
In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.
Languages: English.
Countries:
Canada
ProductionCompanies:
Odd Squad Productions
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