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• Title:Surviving in the cracks : a true story about a play with a purpose / a film by Greg Masuda.
  
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• Variant Title:True story about a play with a purpose
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Masuda, Greg.
  Masuda Media Ltd.
  Vancouver Youth Visions Coalition.
  University of British Columbia. Centre for Population and Health Promotion Research.
  Langara College. Digital Film Program.
  Moving Images Distribution.
  
• Published/Created:[Vancouver, BC] : Greg Masuda ; Vancouver : Moving Images Distribution [distributor], ©2011.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY videosWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HV1441.C32 V378 2011 dvd
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Street youth--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Homelessness--British Columbia--Prevention.
  Social work with youth--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Youth shelters--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Youth--Housing--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Homeless youth--Services for--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Homeless youth--Housing--British Columbia.
  Homeless teenagers--British Columbia--Vancouver--Interviews.
  Shelters for the homeless--Law and legislation--British Columbia.
  Theater and society--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Theater and youth--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  Drama--Therapeutic use.
  Youth workers--British Columbia--Vancouver--Interviews.
  Social action--British Columbia--Vancouver.
  
• Edition:Widescreen.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (48 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: UBC Faculty, Staff and Students Only.
  
• Credits:Producer/director, Greg Masuda ; additional camera, Andrés Salas, Alejandro Zuluaga, Jeff Masuda ; music by Connor Robinson, Rachel Kidd, Tobacco Brown, and Tegan & Sara.
  
• Summary:"In 1994 the BC Provincial Government created the Underage Safe House program in Vancouver as part of a community action plan to help sexually-exploited kids ages 12-15. For ten years street-involved kids in Vancouver had a sanctuary where they could get out of survival mode; the safe houses provided nutritious food, a clean bed, medical care, good company and guidance to the kids to get them back on track with their lives. But in 2004, with only two weeks notice, the Government closed all of the safe houses. This forced the kids back into survival mode and some returned to the street. The safe houses and their allies mobilized and created the Vancouver Youth Visions Coalition (VYVC) and protested the closures. There were promising initial results from the City of Vancouver, but the Province of BC did not respond and the safe houses remained closed. In 2009, the VYVC, a handful of street-involved youth and a university research team, wrote and mounted a play about street life and the safe house closures. Surviving In The Cracks, the theatre production, was an eight month project that came to an end in June 2009. This documentary film follows the motley crew through the ups and downs of the last gasp effort to raise awareness of the safe houses."--Producer website.
  
• Notes:This DVD does not have scene selection.
  Produced by Masuda Media Ltd. ; co-producers, Vancouver Youth Visions Coalition, UBC Centre for Population and Health Promotion Research, Langara College Digital Film program.
  DVD ; widescreen.
  
• Contents:Act I, part 1. Advocacy
  Act I, part 2. Research
  Act II. "It's like in a horror movie"
  Act III. Stage fright.