Official Trailer for ‘Love within the Time of Fentanyl’ Doc Movie from Canada
by Alex Billington
January 19, 2023
Supply: YouTube
“Tender as it’s ugly… admits the conflict on medicine is misplaced.” The unlucky fact that’s arduous for a lot of to cope with. The official trailer has debuted for a documentary movie titled Love within the Time of Fentanyl, from Canadian filmmaker Colin Askey. This premiered at two necessary doc movie festivals final yr – DOXA and DOC NYC – and it’ll start enjoying in theaters in February. The doc movie is an “intimate and compassionate take a look at the frontlines of the overdose disaster.” Govt produced by fellow filmmaker Sean Baker. In Love within the Time of Fentanyl, a gaggle of misfits, artists, and drug customers operates a renegade secure injection web site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – particularly in a forward-thinking overdose prevention heart. The movie is an empathetic portrait of a neighborhood preventing to save lots of lives and maintain hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by Fentanyl and different opioids. This seems like an particularly compassionate examination of this drug disaster.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Colin Askey’s doc Love within the Time of Fentanyl, from YouTube:
Vancouver, Canada is floor zero of the opioid disaster in Canada with fentanyl overdose deaths at an all-time excessive. To avoid wasting lives & help the marginalized neighborhood, a gaggle of present & former drug customers volunteer on the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS), a secure injection web site. By way of intimate commentary, this documentary seems past the stigmatization of injection drug customers and presents hope and empathic methods to strategy the disaster ravaging too many communities. Love within the Time of Fentanyl is directed by Canadian filmmaker Colin Askey, director of the movie Roger’s Move beforehand, plus a couple of different tasks. Produced by Monika Navarro, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal. Govt produced by Sean Baker and Sally Jo Fifer. This initially premiered on the DOXA Movie Pageant in Canada, and at DOC NYC final yr. Fort Mountain Media will debut Love within the Time of Fentanyl in choose US theaters (Firehouse Cinema in NYC) beginning February third, 2023, and it will likely be out there on PBS’ Impartial Lens later this February.
