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Hip-Hop Saved My Life
Watched this on SBS, very interesting. Anyone else see it?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400434/
Nominated for an AFI Award in 2004, this is a documentary style film that follows the lives of three homeless youths who live in Cabramatta. Tommy (Jason McGoldrick) is little more than a boy, but a veteran of the drug life, having become a user when he was thirteen. After yet another friend dies of an overdose, Jimmy tries to get clean with help from Sara (Mylinh Dinh), a Vietnamese-Australian girl he grew up with. While Van (Joe Le) sleeps in a car park above the markets and spends his days stealing clothes. He is estranged from a father who hasn't stopped fighting the Vietnam War and when Van rips off a jacket from a clothesline, he meets Carla, a girl who is as open as he is closed. The third youth is Des who sleeps in doorways with his pregnant girlfriend, Sophie. The stories of the teenager's struggle to survive unfold in car parks, busy roads, housing commission backyards or near the train line in Cabramatta.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400434/
Nominated for an AFI Award in 2004, this is a documentary style film that follows the lives of three homeless youths who live in Cabramatta. Tommy (Jason McGoldrick) is little more than a boy, but a veteran of the drug life, having become a user when he was thirteen. After yet another friend dies of an overdose, Jimmy tries to get clean with help from Sara (Mylinh Dinh), a Vietnamese-Australian girl he grew up with. While Van (Joe Le) sleeps in a car park above the markets and spends his days stealing clothes. He is estranged from a father who hasn't stopped fighting the Vietnam War and when Van rips off a jacket from a clothesline, he meets Carla, a girl who is as open as he is closed. The third youth is Des who sleeps in doorways with his pregnant girlfriend, Sophie. The stories of the teenager's struggle to survive unfold in car parks, busy roads, housing commission backyards or near the train line in Cabramatta.
