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Bevel Up:Drugs, Nurses and Outreach Nursing explores a key question facing healthcare providers across this country -- how can a nurse or outreach worker deliver effective and compassionate health care to people who use drugs?
At the heart of Bevel Up, is a compelling documentary following a team of street nurses through their day-to-day work in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver’s inner city. The footage is startling in its intimacy, compassion and real-life drama. Most importantly, the nurses reflect on attitudes they bring to their work – attitudes that can make or break the relationship needed to successfully provide practical and nonjudgmental health care.
But Bevel Up is more than a 45 min documentary. This intriguing DVD explores a new style of filmmaking for director, Nettie Wild (FIX: The Story of an Addicted City, A Place Called Chiapas). With Bevel Up, she uses an interactive DVD format to combine the cinema verite documentary with 3.5 hours of teaching menus. This extended format encourages the viewer to delve deep into relevant ethical, practical and legal issues which confront healthcare providers on a daily basis in big cities and small towns across Canada. Leading experts in their field address key subjects such as Drugs and the Brain, Pregnancy, Mental Health, Prohibition and Sex Work.
The Street Nurse Program and Bevel Up won the 2007 BC Provincial Health Officer’s Award of Excellence.
Over two years in production, Bevel Up was created in collaboration with the street nurses and a crew of Canada’s leading cinema artists: Director Nettie Wild was joined by cinematographer Kirk Tougas who has shot all of her films, long time collaborator and producer Betsy Carson, and editor Mike Brockington (Eve and the Fire Horse, On the Corner.) The DVD was designed by Sequence— Ian Kirby and Caleb Bouchard (The Corporation, Broken Saints.)
Bevel Up is a co-production of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the National Film Board of Canada, with financial support from Health Canada and the BC Nurses’ Union. It was created in collaboration with Canada Wild Productions.
“The scope of topics and the ethical questions raised are outstanding - simply amazing." — Community Health Nurse, Manitoba
“As a recovered addict who spent time on the streets Toronto, I have never seen a more accurate or compassionate documentary about addictions.”— “Stacey”
“Compassionate and thoroughly professional … Bevel Up belongs in nursing colleges and medical schools across the country." -— B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall.
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