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Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

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Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

"A decade of life and death in the skids"

2007

1h 14m

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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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