Hookers on Davie. Master
Janis Cole and Holly Dale
1984, 89:00 minutes, colour, English (with Closed Captions or French subtitles)
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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