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Foo Foo Dust
by Gina Levy and Eric Johnson
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"Phenomenally powerful and riveting! I worked for years with addicts in treatment settings, but before viewing 'Foo-Foo Dust' I never saw the day-to-day horrors of addiction first hand. I use the film in my couseling courses as it gives my students a window into that world."
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The award-winning "Foo-Foo Dust" explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living together in one room in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The film invites the audience to witness a disturbing and intimate portrait of the destructive power of drug addiction, including a crack-induced fit and near-fatal heroin overdose. But what makes the film so powerful is its moving, poignant look at the intense love between a mother and her son living on the edge of society. Appropriate for:
37 minutes • DVD
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REVIEWS "Wonderful short documentary" "I have never seen addiction captured so well as in the documentary "Foo-Foo Dust" about a mother and son entwined not only by relationship but also by drugs." "No film has ever captured the ugly sadness of drug addicts lives better than Foo-Foo Dust, a profoundly disturbing portrait of crack-addicted middle-aged prostitute and her heroin addict son." "You would be hard-pressed to find a more frightening and candid account of drug addiction than Gina Levy and Eric Johnson's 37-minute Foo-Foo Dust , in which their unblinking camera bears witness to the psychic devastation of mother-and-son crack addicts. The film is shocking, yet the audience is never less than riveted by the real-life story that unfolds on the screen." "In a world where Stephanie screeches obscenities at her son when she cant get enough crack and he steals so he can shoot up, its hard to imagine tenderness and love. But it is there."
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