Vice Canada Reports
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Vice Canada Reports is a Canadian web and television series, produced and distributed by Vice Media through the website of Vice Magazine in 2015 and 2016. The series consists of documentary news reports, which were distributed through the website until the launch of the Viceland television channel's Canadian version in 2016 formally known as "CANADIANA" and "Vice Canada".
The series is a two-time winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media, Non-Fiction, winning at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 and at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.
Notable Documentaries
Overdose Crisis on the US-Canada Border: Steel Town Down (2018)
- Tens of thousands have died of opioid overdoses across the US and Canada in 2017, with the death count surpassing the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The weight of the crisis in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario falls on a handful of people struggling to keep their fellow community members alive, similar to countless towns in North America. Steel Town Down is an intimate portrait of the only harm reduction worker in town and a family desperate to save their son from becoming another victim of the crisis.
The Anarchist Commune in the Rainforest: Poole's Land (2018)
- We travels to Poole's Land, an anarchist commune on the western edge of Canada to figure out what exactly is drawing young people to live on the periphery of society. She ventures into the rainforest and confronts a variety of her deepest fears, but ultimately finds enlightenment in the spirit of the people who inhabit this mysterious place.
The Soldiers of Odin: Inside Canada's Extremist Vigilante Group (2017) (In association with Vice News)
- We investigates the Soldiers of Odin and their declared commitment to preserving Canadian values.
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