Video

Hookers on Davie

Janis Cole

1984, 89:00 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 2162.02

Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution.

The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada.

Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers from the area. The film brings fresh insight to the community of men, women, transvestites and transgendered sex workers, and offers viewers a rare, empathetic understanding of their world and lives.

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Critical Writing

Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Cinema of Marginality
by Kay Armatage. North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, 2002. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.