Love in the Time of Fentanyl Screening with special guest Ronnie Grigg

Registration is FREE!

Join us at the RUCC for an intimate screening of the harm reduction advocacy film “Love in the Time of Fentanyl”. Ronnie Grigg will be onsite to answer questions after the film. Ronnie is the lead subject of the documentary. Narcan training and distribution will also take place after the film.

Please register for the screening as seating is limited. Please note that there is drug use in this film and that viewers may find some scenes difficult to watch. Viewer discretion is advised.

More info on the film below

LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL

Feature Documentary | 80 min, 2022

A group of misfits, artists, and drug users operates a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Love in the Time of Fentanyl is an intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.

Director, Editor, Producer: Colin Askey

Producers: Monika Navarro, Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal

Cinematography: Colin Askey, Eric D. Sanderson

Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Sean Baker

A co-production of Castle Mountain Media, Lost Time Media, and ITVS, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as the Sundance Institute (with support from Just Films/Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations)