East Hastings Pharmacy

East Hastings Pharmacy
Directed byAntoine Bourges
Produced byAntoine Bourges
StarringShauna Hansen
CinematographyLindsay George
Edited byAntoine Bourges
Production
company
Medium Density Fibreboard Films
Distributed byCanadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Release date
Running time
47 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

East Hastings Pharmacy is a 2012 Canadian docufiction film, directed by Antoine Bourges.[1] 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.[2]

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,[3] and cowinner with Rodrigo Barriuso's For Dorian of the Lindalee Tracey Award at the 2013 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[4]

  1. ^ Cédric Mal, "East Hastings Pharmacy (Antoine Bourges)". Le Blog Documentaire, August 6, 2012.
  2. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Film takes a hard look at Occupy movement: DOXA opens with local filmmaker's political doc". The Province, May 1, 2013.
  3. ^ Kevin Ritchie, "Fire in the Blood wins top prize at DOXA". Playback, May 17, 2013.
  4. ^ Peter Knegt, "‘When I Walk,’ ‘Dragon Girls’ Top Hot Docs Winners". IndieWire, May 5, 2013.