Feature Documentary | 80 min, 2022
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: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Sean Baker
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)