Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell

synopsis

Thirty years in the making, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell continuesto follow one of the most indelible subjects of Streetwise, agroundbreaking documentary on homeless and runaway teenagers. ErinBlackwell, a.k.a. Tiny, was introduced in filmmaker Martin Bell,photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall's earlierfilm as a brash fourteen-year-old living precariously on the marginsin Seattle. Now a forty-four year-old mother of ten, Blackwellreflects with Mark on the journey they've experienced together, fromBlackwell's struggles with addiction to her regrets to her dreams forher own children, even as she sees them being pulled down the samepath of drugs and desperation.