NEW YORK, N.Y. (February 12, 2010) – VICE and VBS.TV today announced the North American premiere of Swansea Love Story on VBS.TV, a documentary film that follows the lives of a community of young heroin addicts living in an economically ravaged city of South Wales. Against the backdrop of acute poverty leftover from bygone industry, Swansea Love Story elicits the muted and desperate hope of a sect of Britain few care to acknowledge.
The six-part documentary debuts today on VBS.TV and will run over the weekend and through next week.
Co-directed and produced by VICE UK Editor Andy Capper and Leo Leigh, this dark and moving portrait shows as much about generational destitution and substance abuse as it is does about the weary personal relationships that somehow hold it all together. Swansea Love Story is about the largely unreported heroin epidemic in South Wales.
Describing the film Capper states, “I wanted to make this film because we were tired of seeing homeless young people being portrayed as little more than statistics. Documentaries about drug use often come out pious and fail to really get to know the people behind the drug usage. We wanted to show what it was like to live on the street, under the grip of heroin, as realistically as possible.”
Swansea Love Story was shot throughout 2009 after Capper and Leigh made contact with a gang of young addicts through a nonprofit drugs agency.
The film follows Amy & Cornelius, Lee and Leanne, Clint, Kristian and Wills around their daily lives as they struggle to get money to buy drugs, alcohol and for places to live. During the course of the film, characters get clean and relapse. They fall in and out of love. We meet their families. We meet their dealers. We meet members of Swansea's depressed mining community. We meet the girls who work in the city's many lap-dancing bars the Muslim community, and the racist thugs who want them out of the city.
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