ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
NO HOME HERE details the stories of Sacramento’s most compelling unsheltered individuals and emphasizes how the homeless crisis is a heartbreaking, yet solvable, problem.

SYNOPSIS
NO HOME HERE offers a new perspective in portraying the stories of some of Sacramento’s unsheltered individuals, raising their voices as conduits to examine the deficiencies in our political and social systems. Ultimately, the film will provide innovative solutions to this ongoing crisis, and will humanize the unsheltered by giving us an intimate glimpse into their daily struggles and triumphs.

NO HOME HERE uses the capital city of the nation’s wealthiest state as a microcosm to tell a larger story that plays out across the state and country.

NO HOME HERE will feature: Juella and her family of six living in their van outside the warehouse where the father works full-time; Richard, a mentally ill senior citizen; James, a gifted piano player struggling with drug dependence; Elicia, a full-time college student sleeping in her car; Kristina and her children who escaped domestic violence but in the process became unsheltered; Donald, a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; and Aaray, a transgender woman whose family did not accept her new identity.

NO HOME HERE will show its characters interfacing with various people who are trying to help them and, in the process, will facilitate discussion about solutions to the homelessness crisis. The solutions featured in the film will include the construction of micro-homes built by 3D-printed and full-stack robotic technology, and the creation of a Mental Health Corps to train a legion of mental health professionals to meet the overwhelming demand for treatment and support services.

We are confident that after watching NO HOME HERE viewers will have a deeper understanding of the causes of homelessness, and insight into dynamics contributing to the crisis. Above all, we believe that our film will serve as a critical call to action to support the solutions to the homelessness crisis laid out in the film.

PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

DIRECTOR Lisa Klein
PRODUCER Leslie Silver, Doug Blush

WEBSITE nohomehere.com

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