Give Me Shelter
Give Me Shelter: The Story of the Cannon Street Warming Center, is the third full-length documentary in the My Road Leads Home series of documentaries on homelessness in Spokane, Washington. This documentary follows the operation of a low-barrier homeless warming center that functioned from November 23, 2019, until April 30, 2020.
Check out the trailer below (you’re going to need some tissues for that one!) Our special thanks to Mary Gauthier for her permission to use her amazing rendition of Mercy Me. As with all of our documentaries the full-length documentary premiered on Community-Minded Television (Comcast Channel 14). We want to encourage you to “watch and act.” Watch the film. Then act by getting a shareable link from YouTube and sharing it with all your friends and email contacts (and yes, you may even post it on your Facebook page!).
KREM2 Story About Homeless Camps Documentary
KREM 2 (the local CBS affiliate) contacted me about the documentary short on Homeless Camps (which you'll find on this page) and asked for an interview.
Fig Tree Article On “The Dignity of A Shower”
I honestly didn't see this one coming. I got an email saying, "Here's the link to your story." It's a story about "The Dignity of A Shower," our documentary short on the need for showers in the homeless community. My thanks to Mary Stamp (Editor) and the staff at The Fig Tree Newspaper for following our documentaries on homelessness in Spokane.
It’s Always Nice To Get Noticed!
Shawn Vestal and The Spokesman-Review paid us a visit as we were filming "Give Me Shelter." We genuinely appreciated the very positive exposure they gave us for what we're trying to accomplish, showing a better optic, telling a better story, and setting a better tone. Click to read the whole article.
Our Thanks to SpIFF For Selecting Our Film!
We were approached in late 2019 by the directors of the Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) and asked if we had a version of "The Hidden Homeless" that we could submit to the Festival. Their board had decided that they wanted to do something relevant to the issue of homelessness and had heard about our work. We agreed and Nathan Slabaugh (Slabaugh Media) worked to chop down our Director's Cut to a shorter film festival version which we submitted to great reviews. Many thanks!