Feature Documentary | 2022 | 80 min
A group of misfits, artists, and drug users operates a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Love in the Time of Fentanyl is an intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.
Love in the Time of Fentanyl had its World Premiere at the 21st DOXA Documentary Film Festival, where it was featured as the Justice Forum Special Presentation and took home the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director!
Director, Editor, Producer: Colin Askey
Producers: Monika Navarro, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal
Cinematography: Colin Askey, Eric D. Sanderson
Executive Producers: Sean Baker, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen
A co-production of Castle Mountain Media, Lost Time Media, and ITVS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as the Sundance Institute (with support from Just Films/Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations)
For more info visit: loveinthetimeoffentanyl.com
Educational licensing can be purchased here.
Donate to Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society here.
Documentary Short | 2019 | 18 min
Lynda and Max are patients at Vancouver's Crosstown clinic, a radical treatment program that provides injection drug users with free medical-grade heroin.
Haven had its World Premiere at DOXA 2019 and went on to win several awards on the festival circuit including the Golden Bison for Best Short Documentary at the Buffalo International Film Festival.
