Bud Osborn

A ‘film poem’ based on Bud Osborn’s narrative poem on life in Vancouver’s downtown East Side and breaking the cycle of violence in the most bizarre, off-kilter and frighteningly real world of poverty.

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.