A local filmmaker’s documentary chronicles the decline of a once thriving Black neighbourhood in Vancouver and the ongoing efforts to revive it.
Union Street, a feature-length documentary by writer-director Jamila Pomeroy, looks back on Hogan’s Alley — a three-block stretch at the edge of the Strathcona neighbourhood that was once home to much of Vancouver’s Black community.
The Vancouver filmmaker says she always wanted to tell the story of the neighbourhood.
“It really starts back as a child growing up, wondering why there aren’t a lot of Black people in Vancouver and seeing how my family were treated and it really created this sense of longing for belonging and searching for a
