Living On - "Home"

By: Danya Fast (University of British Columbia) & Kali-olt Sedgemore (British Columbia Centre on Substance Use)

Description: The Living On film project allows young people who use drugs to author and illustrate their own stories about drug use, recovery, care, overdose and living through loss in the context of the North American toxic drug supply emergency. Imagined in collaboration with the youth narrator, these short films allow young people to author and illustrate their own stories about drug use, recovery, care, overdose and living through loss. They move beyond familiar images of drug use in order to develop alternative visual vocabularies for telling these stories. "Home" focuses on the sense of home that can be found in another person (even when they are gone), and how tremendous loss can be tied to new beginnings.