>>>
>>> WE
>>> WE ARE TIRED OF ASSESSMENTS AND NOTHING HAPPENING.>> A NEW
DOCUMENTARY CALLED ATTENTION TO
THE HOMELESS IN THE TWIN
CITIES.
CITIES.
CITIES. STORIES OF THE 2018 MINNEAPOLIS
HOMELESS CAMP PREMIERES ON MAY
19.
19.
19. THE
19. THE FILM MAKER WHO CREATED THE
DOCUMENTARY JOINS US TODAY.
SO THIS TOPIC OBVIOUSLY IS
TIMELY WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO
DIG INTO IT?
>> I HAD BEEN INTERVIEWING
PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY FOR A
WHILE. @I LIKE TO GO TO REGIONS
U.S. I WENT TO THE SOUTH IN THE
SUMMER OF 2016, THEN THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN 2017 AND
INTERVIEWED PEOPLE IN THE AREA
WHO ARE EMBLEMATIC OF THE
REGION.
REGION.
REGION. SO WHEN I WAS IN THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST I SAW A LOT OF
HOMELESSNESS, PORTLAND, SEATTLE
AND VANCOUVER AND I THOUGHT I
LIKE TO DO A DOCUMENTARY JUST
ON THIS TOPIC.
AND THEN THE TENT CITY STARTED
IN MINNEAPOLIS AND THIS IS
WHERE I LIVE SO I THOUGHT I
DON'T HAVE TO GO TO LOS ANGELES
TO THE WEST COAST I CAN COVER
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
>> SO MANY OF US FOLLOWED THE
ISSUE AND THE PROBLEM BECAUSE
IT WAS SO VISIBLE AND WE KNOW
HOMELESSNESS EXISTS IN THE
COMMUNITY.
COMMUNITY. THIS WAS A VERY STARK REMINDER.
WHAT DID YOU FIND WHEN HE WENT
INTO THE TENT CITY AND TALKED
WITH THE FOLKS LIVING THEIR?
>> WHAT I FOUND AND WHAT I WANT
PEOPLE TO GET FROM THE
DOCUMENTARY, BUT I HOPE THEY
GET IS THAT WHEN YOU GET PAST
THE KNEE-JERK REACTION TO
HOMELESSNESS AND I CAN SEE IN
THE COUNTRY THERE ARE TWO.
AS THERE ARE TWO MAIN REACTIONS
TO SO MANY ISSUES, WHETHER IT
IS IMMIGRATION OR ABORTION OR
GUN RIGHTS THERE IS THE LEFT
AND THE RIGHT AND THEY ARE AT
ODDS WITH EACH OTHER.
AND IT IS THE SAME WITH
HOMELESSNESS, ONE SIDE HAS THIS
GUT REACTION OF PITY AND THE
PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS HAVE
BEEN BEATEN DOWN BY THE SYSTEM
AND HAS BEEN THE SYSTEM'S FAULT
AND THEN THE OTHER SIDE IS
CYNICAL AND THEY WILL SAY THESE
PEOPLE ARE JUST DOING DRUGS
THEY ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH TO
BRING THEMSELVES UP AND THEY
PUT THEMSELVES THERE.
NOT SURPRISINGLY WHAT I FOUND
WITH OTHER ISSUES I HAVE
INVESTIGATED AND THAT IS YOU
FIND THE COMPLICATED BLEND OF
PEOPLE WHO DO MAKE DECISIONS,
WHETHER TO RELAPSE OR WEATHERS
TO STAY IN A RELATIONSHIP
THAT'S BAD FOR THEM OR IF IT IS
TO QUIT THE JOB THAT PUTS THEM
IN A BAD POSITION THEN YOU GET
TO KNOW HOW THEY GREW UP IN AN
ABUSIVE HOME PERHAPS.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THEY HAD IT
TOUGH RIGHT FROM THE START AND
YOU DO BUILD EMPATHY AND
SYMPATHY FOR THEM AND YOU WANT
TO HELP THEM.
>> SHIRLEY ADDICTION AND MENTAL
HEALTH ISSUES AND ABUSE ALL
PLAY A PART AND IT IS
IMPORTANT, IT IS INTERESTING TO
GIVE THIS PERSPECTIVE.
YOU OBVIOUSLY HAD WONDERFUL
ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY, YOU
BUILD THE TRUST THAT IS
PROFOUND AND IMPORTANT.
ANY THOUGHTS?
ANY THOUGHTS? >> IF YOU DON'T GET THEM TO
TRUST YOU AND LIKE YOU AND THEY
KNOW YOU ARE NOT GOING TO
EXPLOIT THE SITUATION WHICH WAS
THE FEAR FROM THE START AND A
LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LIKE WHO ARE
YOU?
YOU?
YOU? BUT
YOU? BUT I SAID I WANT TO SHARE YOUR
STORIES, THEY CALL THE
COMMUNITY THE WALL AND IT IS MY
GOAL TO HELP THEIR STORIES BE
KNOWN, TO BE REMEMBERED AND NOT
FORGOTTEN AND WHEN THEY
UNDERSTOOD THAT INTERESTED ME
AND THEY WERE WILLING TO OPEN
UP AND SHARE THEIR LIFE WHICH
THEY DO ACKNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN
UNTOLD BUT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
PEOPLE THAT THEY THINK CARE
ABOUT THEM SO WHEN THEY SENSED
THAT I DID AND OTHERS IN THE
COMMUNITY DO THEN THEY WERE
WILLING TO OPEN UP.>> A LOT OF
PEOPLE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN
FINDING OUT MORE.
THE WALL PREMIERES ON MAY 19
WITH MORE DETAILS ON
KARE11.COM.
KARE11.COM. , YOU ARE PROBABLY WONDERING
ABOUT THE SNOW.
WE FIND OUT WHERE IT COULD
FALL, PLUS THE PEANUT ALLERGY
TREATMENT THAT COULD DO MORE
HARM THAN GOOD AND WHAT
MINNESOTANS ARE DOING TO AVOID
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