Video: The Neighbourhood of William Vince

John Bucher

 | August 14, 2008

This is a tour through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a neighbourhood for which the late Hollywood film producer William Vince felt great affection.

Every Saturday night on a desolate stretch of Main Street, William Vince's District 319 theatre casts a ray of light and movie magic. But the beautifully refurbished movie house is a study in juxtaposition: it sits just a few rundown shopfronts away from the itinerant souls huddled at the corner of Main and Hastings, in what is considered Canada's poorest postal code.

More: The William Vince Foundation

Vince talked of wanting to make the ramshackle neighbourhood "feel alive again." "It frustrates me that there’s no pride in the area,” he said. Vince died, of cancer, on June 21, 2008. He was 44.

This video was collected by digital editor John Bucher on Friday, August 1, 2008.

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Pretty cheesy and far too

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-11-11 23:28.
Pretty cheesy and far too simplistic.

I agree -- this video is

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2008-08-25 12:05.
I agree -- this video is simple and powerful. Really well done, BCBusiness!

Nice video!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-08-14 15:10.
Nice video!
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