Film Showing | BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution To Homelessness
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Special Event
| Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Grand Ballroom |
Session Overview
BEYOND THE BRIDGE is an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film team drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and met with dozens of service providers and policy makers to answer this question: How can our country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
The film showing is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, Don Sawyer and Tim Hasko, Pathways to Housing First Institute founder Dr. Sam Tsemberis, and James Mathy from the Milwaukee County Housing Division.
Learn more about the film here
RSVP here
*please note that by RSVPing to this particular event, you are not registering for the Housing First Partners Conference
Learn more about the film here
RSVP here
*please note that by RSVPing to this particular event, you are not registering for the Housing First Partners Conference
Description
BEYOND THE BRIDGE is an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film team drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and met with dozens of service providers and policy makers to answer this question: How can our country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
Don Sawyer
Producer / Director
A Bigger Vision Films
Producer / Director
Don Sawyer founded A Bigger Vision Films in 2014. Sawyer produced, directed and co-wrote the 2016 film "UNDER THE BRIDGE: The Criminalization of Homelessness" and won Best Hoosier Lens award at the Indy Film Fest, as well as official selection of the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival. Sawyer was also co-producer for the REELZ Channel series "HOW TO SURVIVE A MURDER". Sawyer wrote, directed and produced the 2021 PBS Independent Lens short film “TROUBLE AT LAKE MONROE”. Don Sawyer and Tim Hashko of A Bigger Vision Films received the 2022 Stewart B. McKinney award from the National Homelessness Law Center for their films on homelessness. Sawyer produced, directed and wrote the 2024 feature length documentary “BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness”.
Tim Hashko
Cinematographer / Editor
A Bigger Vision Films
Cinematographer / Editor
