East Hastings Pharmacy (2012)
47m
Running Time
March 28, 2012Release Date
East Hastings Pharmacy (2012)
47m
Running Time
March 28, 2012Release Date
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Plot.
Bourges documents the daily routine of a typical pharmacy in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. The architecture of the space is as much a character as the population which passes through it, with borders of glass between the street and the pharmacy and then between the pharmacist and her clients. The tension of the situation and the struggles on both sides of the glass are punctuated with moments of good humour and camaraderie.
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East Hastings Pharmacy is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Antoine Bourges and released in 2012. 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.