Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens (2007)

November 30th, 20071h 14min

Documentary
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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.


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