The Blue Lens Collection

2 movies

Anti-drug officers in the Vancouver Police Department document the lives of six drug addicts.

Movies

Through a Blue Lens

1999

This documentary, set in the Lower East End of Vancouver's downtown core, is a pretty honest account of life on the streets in urban Canada. It is aimed at educating high school kids on the dangers of addiction to hard drugs and is the brainchild of a group of city police officers who videotape their interactions with local homeless personalities.

Through a Blue Lens

1999

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Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

2007

Movie

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.

Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

2007