Exclusive: Cinema Libre Studio has acquired rights to The Advocates, Rémi Kessler’s documentary focusing on the growing homeless crisis in Los Angeles. The deal comes as the pic has its world premiere Saturday in the La Muse section of the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film will screen next month at the Woodstock Film Festival and get a limited theatrical release beginning October 19.
The film centers on both the historic and current causes of L.A.’s rising homeless crisis and the advocates working to house them, and features the campaign to pass Measure H, which Los Angeles County voters eventually approved in March 2017; the sales tax increase aims to generate about $355 million a year for homeless services and programs. The county estimates as many as 58,000 are homeless on a given night.
The film was sponsored by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and produced by Ksa Productions.
The film centers on both the historic and current causes of L.A.’s rising homeless crisis and the advocates working to house them, and features the campaign to pass Measure H, which Los Angeles County voters eventually approved in March 2017; the sales tax increase aims to generate about $355 million a year for homeless services and programs. The county estimates as many as 58,000 are homeless on a given night.
The film was sponsored by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and produced by Ksa Productions.
- 9/21/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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