Kim Gjerstad, the guy who helped me get this blog going suggested an excellent documentay: Black Tar Heroin, the Dark End of the Street by Steven Okazaki.
The film documents the life of 5 young heroin users in San Francisco, aged between 18-25 years old who confront all the dangers which heroin dependence often brings about – Crime, prostitution, rape, imprisonment, AIDS, overdose and death.
You can see an ex-trait of this film on his website. What shocked me was the fact we could see the complete film on the Internet. I contacted Steven who explained that this was not his choice:
“Black Tar Heroin was shown on HBO in 1999 and re-shown several times since. We have just heard of this pirated version of the film and I hope that we will be able to take it off as soon as possible. Being an independent filmmaker I invest a lot of effort and time in my work, and I do not earn a lot, so this sort of situation saddens me. Also the quality of the image is really bad.”
To know more about ‘Black Tar Heroin’, I suggest you read the article in the Metropolitain from April, 1999, also the article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Steven Okazaki’s most recent documentary: White Light/Black Rain which reexamines the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the repercussions. It was presented at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
Steven Okazaki has won many prizes with his films, and an Oscar for the best short in 1990 for the film Days of Waiting . You can read an interview with him on this site.
(Thanks to Jeanne Pope and Adam Shamash. )
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