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Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

Tears for April: Beyond the Blue Lens

# A decade of life and death in the skids
Documentary
📜 Overview: In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 2007-11-30
⌚ Running Time: 74 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 0.0

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April Reoch

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