Hookers on Davie
Documentary filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale profile sex workers on Davie Street in Vancouver, British Columbia in the 1980s.
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Following their pathbreaking documentary P4W: Prison for Women (1981), pioneering filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale turned their lens to the sex worker community in and around Davie Street, a Vancouver neighborhood informally known in the 1980s as the “prostitution capital” of Canada. The result was Hookers on Davie, a landmark document combining candid and revealing interviews with sex workers – with an emphasis on members of the trans community – vivid glimpses of their professional lives, and indelible location footage highlighting their collective fight in the face of legislative oppression. Much lauded upon its release in 1984 and no less potent 40 years later, Hookers on Davie evidences Cole and Dale’s deeply humanist approach to documentary practice, bringing care and compassion to subjects often represented in more reductive, moralistic terms. Among the greatest documentaries ever produced in Canada – a country with a venerated documentary tradition – Hookers on Davie continued a trailblazing run of non-fiction films for Cole and Dale, and it remains the gold standard today. (Canadian International Pictures)
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Janis COLE, Holly DALE
