NETTIE WILD IN CRANBROOK TO SHOW HER AWARD-WINNING FILM

The winner of the Most Popular Canadian Film at the Vancouver International
Film Festival will show in Cranbrook Thursday, April 3 at Columbia Theatre
at 7:00 pm.

A community forum will follow the screening, moderated by producer/director
Nettie Wild.

For over two years Wild and her documentary crew delved deep into the
alleys and politics of Vancouver's notorious drug scene. The result is FIX:
The Story of an Addicted City, a documentary as unexpected as it is compelling.

Wild is familiar to film audiences as the director of A Place Called
Chiapas (1999), Blockade (1993) and A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the
Philippine Revolution (1989).

FIX: The Story of an Addicted City follows a human story that will resonate
in every big city and small town across Canada. Dean Wilson is in love with
drugs and with activist Ann Livingston. As Dean struggles to overcome his
addiction, he and Ann organize the drug users of Vancouver's downtown
eastside to open Canada's first safe injection site. Together they forge an
unexpected alliance with the conservative mayor of Vancouver, Philip Owen.
The mayor ends up being pushed out of his own political party because of
his support for the addicts and safe injection sites. The result is a
dramatic story about love, drugs and politics.

Renowned novelist Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) says, "As a
political act FIX is an urgent and just and heartbreaking film. As a work
of art it expands the known limits of human nature with remarkable portraits."

MacLean's magazine credits FIX with having influenced the outcome of
Canada's first "drug election," Vancouver's mayoral race that swept Mayor
Larry Campbell and his COPE party into power calling for safe injection
sites and a new way of dealing with drugs and addiction.

Guest speakers for the community forum include Pat Gibson Public Health
Nurse, Interior Health, Cranbrook; Dean Nicholson, Adminis-trator, EK
Alcohol & Drug Counselling Services; Alex Sherstibitoff, Needle Exchange,
ANKORS West; and Megan Lewis, Project Coordinator, ANKORS West and one of
the founding mothers of the Prostitutes Empowerment, Education & Resource
Society in Victoria.

FIX: The Story of an Addicted City is produced by Canada Wild Productions,
in association with CTV, with the assistance of Telefilm Canada and British
Columbia Film.

with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, CTF License Fee
Program, Telefilm Canada Equity Investment Program, the participation of
the Rogers Documentary Fund, in association with Knowledge Network, W-a
Corus Entertainment Company, British Columbia Arts Council, CanWest Western
Independent Producers Fund, with the assistance of the Canadian Film or
Video Production Tax Credit, and the Telus New Media and Broadcast Fund.

The Kootenays tour of FIX: The Story of an Addicted City has been made
possible in part by the BC Nurses' Union, Telefilm Canada and funds raised
by Philip and Christian Owen. Special thanks go out to the Kootenay Moving
Pictures Film Festival in Nelson.