Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell
Opens Aug 26, 2019
August 27 & 29 only!
Thirty years in the making, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell continues to follow one of the most indelible subjects of Streetwise,
a groundbreaking documentary on homeless and runaway teenagers. Erin
Blackwell, a.k.a. Tiny, was introduced in filmmaker Martin Bell,
photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall's earlier
film as a brash fourteen-year-old living precariously on the margins in
Seattle. Now a forty-four-year-old mother of ten, Blackwell reflects
with Mark on the journey they’ve experienced together, from Blackwell's
struggles with addiction to her regrets to her dreams for her own
children, even as she sees them being pulled down the same path of drugs
and desperation. Interweaving three decades’ worth of Mark’s
photographs and footage that includes previously unseen outtakes from Streetwise,
this is a heartrending, deeply empathetic portrait of a family
struggling to break free of the cycle of trauma, as well as a summation
of the life's work of Mark, an irreplaceable artistic voice.