István Gábor Takács is a human rights activist, videographer and trainer. He ran the Video Advocacy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union between 2007-2015. He worked as a needle exchange program counselor for 5 years. He is author of several articles on harm reduction and cameraman, editor, director and co-director of more than 700 online videos, among them longer documentaries, such as “Kostya Proletarsky” (2020), “Taking Back What’s Ours: An Oral History of the Movement of People who Use Drugs” (2020) ”A Day in the Life: The World of Humans Who Use Drugs” (2016), “Without Rights” (2009), “Without a Chance” (2014), “Room in the 8th District” (2014) and “The Invisible” (2011). Since 2016 he works at the Rights Reporter Foundation, where besides producing films, he is training activists in video advocacy.
Thousands of Hungarians protested against a bill that would blacklist NGOs funded from abroad. Protesters think that by scapegoating these organisations, Prime Minister Orban is trying to silence the critics of his corrupt, authoritarian regime.
“We wanted to show to the whole neighbourhood that people who use drugs are not indifferent and have a great power to do great things. It is only a matter of opportunity.” Odysseus, a Slovakian harm reduction NGO uses video advocacy to reach out local communities.
Film ini mengangkat cerita satu hari dari tujuh orang, yang berasal dari tujuh kota di tujuh negara yang berbeda, dari pagi hingga malam. Ketujuh orang ini memiliki sesuatu yang sama—semuanya menggunakan napza.
El documental nos lleva a través un día en la vida de siete personas, de siete ciudades, en siete países distintos del mundo; desde las primeras horas de la mañana hasta el anochecer. Todos tienen algo en común, todos ellos usan alguna droga.
The film takes us through one day in the life of eight people, from seven cities, in seven different countries of the world, from morning until night. They all have something in common – all of them use drugs.
Der Film führt uns durch einen Tag im Leben von acht Menschen aus sieben Städten in sieben verschiedenen Ländern der Welt, vom Morgen bis in die Nacht. Sie alle haben etwas gemeinsam: sie alle gebrauchen Drogen, aber sie definieren sich nicht darüber.
