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Street Health Stories
Author(s): National Film Board of Canada
Publication Date: 2008
How do you take care of your health when you don't have a home? STREET HEALTH STORIES asks this question, weaving intimate audio interviews with stunning portrait-photography collected by four young women who have themselves experienced homelessness.  Watch the video here
I Was Here
Author(s): National Film Board of Canada
Publication Date: 2006
I WAS HERE is a participatory action research project (PAR) which used photovoice and film as tools for self expression, communication and exploration. Young pregnant or parenting women with lived experience of homelessness learned to photoblog and use digital cameras to present their art work and their concrete ideas for social and political change. I WAS HERE is a project of the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence program at...
Beating the Streets
Author(s): Lorna Thomas Productions, National Film Board of Canada
Publication Date: 1998
Beating the streets traces six years in the lives of two inner-city aboriginal teens. It's also the story of Jean Cloutier, the teacher and the former dropout determined to help them. He founded a drama program that let teens explore important issues like family violence and suicide. Joe also took on the challenge of opening an alternative school for teens at risk.