Film Reviews
October 2, 2002. The Globe and Mail
The Mayor, The Addict and The Filmmaker.
Fix: The Story of an Addicted
City attracted a sold-out crowd to its hometown premiere at
the Vancouver International Film Festival on Sunday night. And
if the euphoric reception was any indication, Fix is more than
just a documentary -- it's the first snapshot of a movement
that's about to smack Vancouver into radical change...
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September 14, 2002. The Vancouver
Sun
Wild's look at addicts' lives breaks stereotypes.
FIX: The Story of an Addicted
City, is yet another conscious raising piece, but this time,
she's not chronicling a revolution in some far- flung part of
the world she's bearing witness to a tragedy taking place in
her own backyard: the so-called "drug problem" on
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside...
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September 7, 2002. The Vancouver Sun
Champion of the Downtown Eastside Owen's goodbye gift for addiction
film.
Retirement turned into funraiser for FIX.
There will be no retirement dinner
with lengthy and mushy tributes for outgoing Vancouver mayor
Philip Owen. There will be no fund raiser where he hands over
a pile of money to the new NPA candidate. Instead the mayor
who has become a champion for the city's drug addicts has decided
that he wants his goodbye to the city to be used to raise money
to support a powerful about-to-be-released documentary film
that portrays the tragedy and conflict in the Downtown Eastside
and Owen's difficult political battles to find a solution...
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