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Film festival
2010 NCIDU film festival details. All films to be shown in the Barbour Room.
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Thursday 7th October
*Pre main conference
*10.00am - The war on the war on drugs (USA)
Length: 60 minutes
Country of production: USA
Director: Cevin Soling
Producer: Cevin Soling and Daniel Kornfeld
Organisation: Spectacle Films, Inc.
Email contact: cevin@spectaclefilms.com
The War on the War on Drugs exposes drug war propaganda by parodying social campaigns and those who insist on fighting illicit drug use at any cost. Exhaustively researched, the film, with tongue firmly in cheek, uses factual information to advocate the usage of mind-altering drugs.
The film comprises independent short scenes in a wide variety of cinematic styles. These include: 1970s educational reels providing information on meth lab fire safety and how to find a dealer you can trust, 1950s black and white sci- fi spoofs of anti-drug ads, a cooking show that explains how to make hash brownies, children’s television puppets dispensing drug information, and an exposé on the eerie comparisons between DARE and Hitler Youth. The same tenuous innuendos that are used to distort or exaggerate the dangers of drugs are applied to assail the character of those who utilise this methodology to support the anti-drug position.
Funny, irreverent, poignant and informative, The War on the War on Drugs reveals that the drug war is ultimately far more dangerous than the drugs it purports to fight.
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*11.05 - Understanding injecting risks and practices among IDUs in Lagos Nigeria: A critical analysis in planning sustainable harm reduction interventions
Length: 10 minutes
Country of production: Nigeria
Organisation: Freedom Foundation
Email contact: o.dirisu@freedomfoundationng.org
The lack of in-depth knowledge and limited information about IDU practices in Nigeria makes it difficult to design intervention programs for them. The film focuses on understanding injecting practices among IDUs in Lagos, Nigeria. The diversity, characteristics and practices of IDUs must be taken into consideration in planning interventions. Information on frequency of injecting, sharing practices, drug combinations, doses, preparations and routes of administration is invaluable in guiding a sustainable, culture fit harm reduction program for IDUs.
Methods:
Qualitative methods were used to collect information in the form of in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and structured participant observation without putting the consenting participants at further risk. Tools utilized include a Focus group discussion guide and an observation checklist.
Results:
The film shows various injecting skills, behavior and practices of IDUs; it reflects the need for urgent interventions to reduce the spread of HIV among them. Socioeconomic factors, culture and age all influence preparation methods which in turn carry different levels of risk for transmission of HIV. The film also addresses knowledge of the risks and chances of other IDUs acquiring HIV, because they may be unwilling to accept that they are personally exposed to high levels of risk.
Discussion/Conclusion:
In order to develop a successful comprehensive community based program for an ethically sensitive group in a country like Nigeria, this short film reveals useful information about the knowledge, attitude and injecting practices of IDUs that need to be taken into consideration.
Dr. Anthony Rapu is the Founder and Trustee of Freedom Foundation, an NGO based in Lagos, Nigeria committed to developing programs that serve as tools for affecting social reintegration, rehabilitation and empowerment of identified vulnerable groups.
He has been involved extensively in substance abuse prevention and treatment in Nigeria for over 20 years through community based drug intervention programs. His key focus has been to bring reform to individuals trapped in the cycle of crime, prostitution and drug abuse.
The Foundation currently runs a drug rehabilitation and resource center in Lagos, called House of Refuge - a 25-bed facility that caters specifically to the rehabilitation needs of male drug and alcohol dependent persons. This Foundation is also part of a Central Working Group for Enhancing Nigeria's Response; Most at Risk Population (ENR: MARPs) Research and PEP protocol which has IDUs as a key focus.
Dr. Osasuyi Dirisu and has being involved extensively health promotion activities at various levels for over 10 years. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer, Medical Missions for Freedom Foundation and is responsible for managing and upgrading the Foundation's health promotion and rehabilitation programs. She also directly oversees the House of Refuge a 25-bed facility that caters specifically to the rehabilitation needs of male drug and alcohol dependent persons. Through the staff, community of partners, volunteers, and network organizations, they offer in-patient, out-patient and community outreach services in the areas of drug and substance abuse.
Funding: The source of funding for this study is from Freedom Foundation's founding organization (This Present House) which funds a portion of the administrative and research expenses of the foundation every year. The foundation routinely plans and executes documentaries/films of new areas challenge or success stories following community interventions.
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*11.15am - Trip to Earth: Report on how human beings deal with drugs
Length: 6 minutes
Language: Spanish (with English subtitles)
Country of production: Argentina
Director: Diego M. Rolle
Producer: Cooperativa de Trabajo “Animadores de Rosario” Ltda.
Organisation: CEADS/UNR
Email contact: diegorolle@gmail.com or sinchaur@unr.edu.ar
An animated film about an alien, In’dahg, studying the planet Earth and his research on how humans deal with some inanimate objects called drugs. In’dahg visits Argentina because he was informed that the humans there – like in other places, but not in all places – have a particular way of facing the issue of drug use and of trying to solve individual, social and health problems using the law. He is surprised to see that the human method of helping those with drug problems is to incarcerate them.
From a naive point of view, he wonders about several contradictions, neglected issues and social attitudes. His report reviews the role of police, the goal of abstinence, the cause of crime and the function of objects of consumption in modern societies. He analyses how humans respect or tolerate other ways of harming themselves, but not drug use. The film contributes to an ongoing national debate, and supports a change in the law, policy and attitude of society to drugs, drug users and decriminalisation.
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1.10pm - Heroin & crack: Inside and out (UK)
Length: 34 minutes
Country of production: UK
Director: Colin Angell – Magic Carpet Films
Organisation: SMART CJS and Oxfordshire DAAT
Email contact: Pasquale.brammer@oxfordshiredaat.org
Heroin & Crack: Inside and out was commissioned by Oxfordshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) and produced by SMART CJS. The resulting DVD is a harm reduction tool for raising awareness of drugs and the effects on the user and people around them. In this film, ex-users talk candidly about drug use and describe their journeys from addiction to treatment and on to recovery. There is a section focusing on the devastating effects within a family when parents discover that their child is dependent on drugs. Professor David Nutt, a former UK government senior drugs advisor, explains the science behind addiction and how heroin and crack can take over some people’s brains – and lives. Speaking to users and their families, it seems that during their treatment journey, the physical effect of the drugs on the brain is not always explained or examined. The film explains the process of addiction and the physical harm and effects it can bring.
1.45pm - Working towards recovery (UK)
Length: 10 minutes
Country of production: UK
Director: Ben Lynam (UKDPC)
Producer: Justin Lawrence Smith (Benchmark Productions)
Organisation: UK Drug Policy Commission
Email contact: info@ukdpc.org.uk
This film accompanied a review report by the UK Drug Policy Commission published under the same name. It describes how finding meaningful employment has helped recovering addicts in the UK to get their lives back on track. It features the journeys and experiences of former drug users, treatment practitioners and employers.
This film has been used as part of a training programme for newly appointed Jobcentre Plus drug coordinators.
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3.10pm - Reflections - Overdose awareness day (Australia)
Length: 8 minutes
Country of production: Australia
Director: Sally Finn
Producer: Adrian Price
Organization: The Salvation Army Crisis Services and Pixel Flix
Email contact: sjfinn@bigpond.com or adrian@pixelflix.com.au
Overdose Awareness Day (OAD) is aday to remember those who have died from overdose as well as those who live with permanent injuries from overdose. This film, created for OAD 2009, seeks to explore the stigma associated with drug use, and in presenting drug users’ voices aims to send a strong message to current and former drug users that they are valued as part of the community.
The film explores issues of overdose that are heroin related, but also overdoses from alcohol, pills and other drugs, and in doing so aims to remind drug users to be careful. The interviews provide an opportunity for those involved to mourn publicly for loved ones. The film hopes to stimulate discussion in the community about overdose prevention and drug policy.
3.20pm - ‘I never thought I would see this day’
Length: 9 minutes
Country of production: UK
Organisation: NHS Highland
Email contact: lisa.ross1@nhs.net
The film runs through an overdose scenario with CPR and Naloxone through to arrival of paramedics.
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3.30pm - Live: A training film on the use of injectable naloxone to prevent opiate overdose death
Length: 10 minutes
Country of production: USA
Presenter: Greg Scott
Director: Greg Scott
Producer: Chicago Recovery Alliance
Organisation: Chicago Recovery Alliance
Email contact:gscott@depaul.edu
Live is an unusual overdose (OD) response training film in that its narrative arc consists of areal-life OD (and peer rescue) caught on film. This video begins with the actual OD and then proceeds to break it down into five stages, using dramatic re-enactments by opiate users to demonstrate clearly the optimal peer response during each stage of the overdose. Ultimately the film’s goal is to teach opiate users and those who care about them how to identify and respond effectively to opiate overdose with a combination of rescue breathing and, where available, the pure opiate antagonist naloxone (or Narcan).
Reviewers of Live have given it high marks for its clear and compelling delivery of life-saving knowledge and skill.
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Friday 8th October
11.35am - 10% Shooters - The history of the shift from injecting to smoking in Holland (UK)
Length: 15 minutes
Country of production: UK
Director: Jon Derricott
Producer: Exchange Supplies
Organisation: Exchange Supplies
Email contact: jon@exchangesupplies.org
This engaging short film charts the chronology and reasons behind what remains a unique phenomenon, the large-scale shift amongst Dutch drug users from injecting their drugs of choice to smoking them. This tendency has been so pronounced that drug consumption rooms in Holland are almost universally given over to providing a safe and secure place for users to smoke and socialise without causing neighbourhood concerns and without fear of Police harassment. With unprecedented access to two such consumption rooms, the film shows short interviews with current heroin and crack smokers alongside high-quality footage of the smoking of heroin and crack on foil and in pipes.
11.50am - Tales from the robber's dog - The ballad of the two Charlies (UK)
Length: 12 minutes
Country of production: UK
Director: Michael Linnell, The Lifeline Project
Producer: Mike Kirwin, Box Animation
Organisation: The Lifeline Project
Email contact: Michael@lifeline.org.uk
'The two Charlies’ started life as a research project with a group of young criminals in the city of Sanford in north-west England. The research centred around the appearance of crack cocaine in a powder cocaine market and the positive image of cocaine as opposed to the stigma associated with heroin use. It led to the original intervention: a 26-page obscene, foul-mouthed comic book designed to be read out loud, which was presented at the IHRA conference in Belfast in 2005.
To promote some of the commissioned communications and film work that it has been doing and as an example of an alternative way of presenting ethnographic research and making it relevant for the people who are the subject of the research, this national drug help charity has turned the intervention into an animated film.
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1.15pm - Hep C: Any person, any age (Australia)
Length: 14 minutes
Country of production: Australia
Director: Kathy Don
Producer: Red Hat Films
Organisation: Hepatitis C Victoria
Email contact: emily@hepcvic.org.au
Hepatitis C Victoria and Whitelion (Young Women's Support Service Program) worked in partnership to develop the Young Women's Hepatitis C Prevention and Early Intervention Project. The aim of the project was to increase young peoples’ understanding of safer injecting drug use practices as research indicates that one in five new hepatitis C infections are in young people aged 15-19 years. The project trained young women (who have had previous contact with the Youth Justice System) as peer educators to deliver hepatitis C education sessions to young people who have had contact with the justice system and/or were at risk of disengaging from the school system.
During the project, we worked with the young women to design and create four short films about hepatitis C. The films could be used by the peer educators as an education tool when they were talking to other young people in schools about hepatitis C and prevention. The DVD covers topics including: what is hepatitis C, how it affects you, how hepatitis C is transmitted and how to prevent getting hepatitis C.
Schools were eager to harness the positive capacity of young people’s peer relationships and recognised that this model could deliver explicit safer drug using messages that are often impossible in the normal school context. The peer educators delivered multiple sessions to over 85 students at 3 different alternative schools, where many of the students are at risk of disengaging with the education system. Engaging sensitively with young people who have not yet injected to promote healthy behaviours is often a challenging task, however, the sessions were well received by both the teachers and the students.
The project sought to coordinate a response to hepatitis C that was relevant, meaningful and led by young people using the principles of youth participation and health promotion. If you would like to know more about the project, please contact Emily Adamson emily@hepcvic.org.au from Hepatitis C Victoria.
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1.30pm - Hep C the facts
Length: 24 minutes
Country of production: UK
Director: Addictive Media
Producer: Addictive Media
Organisation: Lancaster Drug and Alcohol Action Team in association with Lancastershire User Forum and Blackpool Service User Group
Email contact: david@dmcmedia.org.uk
This DVD focuses on how people contract Hep C with substance misuse problems and how they treated it.
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