DVD
Tiny : the life of Erin Blackwell
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Erin Blackwell, Mary Ellen Mark.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"In 1983, director Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of homeless and runaway teenagers living on the margins in Seattle. Streetwise follows an unforgettable group of kids who survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving. Its most haunting and enduring figure is iron-willed fourteen-year-old Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny; the project's follow-up, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, completed thirty years later, draws on the filmmakers' long relationship with their subject, now a mother of ten. Blackwell reflects with Mark on the journey they've experienced together, from Blackwell's battles with addiction to her regrets to her dreams for her children, even as she sees them repeat her own struggles"--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a documentary in 2016.
Special features: New high-definition digital restoration, supervised by director Martin Bell ; four short films by Bell: Tiny at 20 (1993), The amazing plastic lady (1995), Erin (2005), and "Streetwise" revisited: rat (2021) ; trailer.