Veronica Alice Mannix

This documentary, set in the Lower East End of Vancouver's downtown core, is a pretty honest account of life on the streets in urban Canada. It is aimed at educating high school kids on the dangers of addiction to hard drugs and is the brainchild of a group of city police officers who videotape their interactions with local homeless personalities.

Poet, political activist, and former addict Bud Osborn tells his remarkable story of survival and how it has inspired his struggle to defend Canada's most impoverished community, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where the worst epidemic of HIV/AIDS among drug users in the western world is occurring.