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The film invites the audience to witness a disturbing and intimate portrait of the destructive power of drug addiction, including a crack-induced fit and near-fatal heroin overdose. But what makes the film so powerful is its moving, poignant look at the intense love between a mother and her son living on the edge of society.
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"Phenomenally powerful and riveting! I worked for years with addicts in treatment settings, but before viewing 'Foo-Foo Dust' I never saw the day-to-day horrors of addiction first hand. I use the film in my couseling courses as it gives my students a window into that world."
–Dr. Lee Stein,Human Services Department, Maui Community College
"I have never seen addiction captured so well as in the documentary 'Foo-Foo Dust' about a mother and son entwined not only by relationship but also by drugs."
Al Martinez
Los Angeles Times
"No film has ever captured the ugly sadness of drug addicts' lives better than 'Foo-Foo Dust', a profoundly disturbing portrait of crack-addicted middle-aged prostitute and her heroin addict son."
Filmmaker Magazine
"You would be hard-pressed to find a more frightening and candid account of drug addiction than Gina Levy and Eric Johnson's 37-minute 'Foo-Foo Dust' , in which their unblinking camera bears witness to the psychic devastation of mother-and-son crack addicts. The film is shocking, yet the audience is never less than riveted by the real-life story that unfolds on the screen."
Cleveland Free Times
"In a world where Stephanie screeches obscenities at her son when she can't get enough crack and he steals so he can shoot up, it's hard to imagine tenderness and love. But it is there."
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About Gina Levy |
| Gina produces and directs fiction, documentary, commercials and news. An award-winning filmmaker, Gina Levy was named one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine.
Her documentary "Foo-Foo Dust" was short-listed for an Academy Award, nominated for an IDA Documentary Achievement Award, awarded a Special Jury Prize at AFI-Silverdocs, won Best Doc Short at Los Angeles Film Festival and screened at over 30 festivals including Sundance. Gina produced, shot, edited and directed this film, which explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
Adapted from a Joyce Carol Oates short story, her fiction short, "Ask Again Later," premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival. She has directed reality television for September Films, commericials for AfterDark Filmsm and news for The New York Times.
Gina graduated from Harvard University where she studied documentary photography with famed photographer Barbara Norfleet. Following, she embarked on a fellowship studying the response to deforestation in the Himalayas of India and Nepal. She was drawn to the stories and struggles of the people and began writing and photographing on culture and the environment of the Himalayas for the local press. She moved to Japan and then China where she worked as a writer and editor for The Economist Group covering multinational business throughout Asia. Her work continued in the area of print and visual communications. She authored three books for The Economist on China's economic boom. She produced an industrial video series on China, which won a Golden Cinema in Industry Award. Previous to her directing career, Gina was worked marketing as Vice President Marketing for two software companies. |
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