We’ve got enough money in California to solve homelessness six times over and folks who are hoarding that money aren’t choosing to do that. Everyone ought to have a decent place to live. I don’t know why you can’t be human to humans. In one of the richest economies in the world, it’s not OK to have some people with way too much and other people with absolutely nothing. There is a binary, and we want to hold on to that. What’s different about them that they need this experience and everyone else doesn’t? What is wrong with how we approach the human condition? We just have to think about it differently.ĭo you want your kids to be safe and sound? Then why is it OK that these kids are in this situation? One of our goals is to allow people to tell their story in their ways and to honor that. On Nextdoor, you read terrible things about homeless people. Ultimately, what I hope it does is humanize people. The unfolding of the film was a surprise to me. When I started making this film, I didn’t have a list of people I wanted to talk to. What do you hope your film communicates about homelessness in Oakland and the Bay Area? We interviewed Fabio to hear more about the filmmaking process and what she hopes to communicate about the regional housing crisis. “This is a community swell sort of distribution,” Fabio said about upcoming dates, which are available on the film’s website. The film will be showing Saturday at Tarea Hall Pittman Library in South Berkeley. The poster for Cheryl Fabio’s film, A Rising Tide. The documentary, which released this summer, illustrates the traumas and truths of homelessness, and prompts solutions to what is often presented as an intractable problem in the Bay Area. Oakland director Cheryl Fabio’s latest documentary, A Rising Tide, maps the scope of homelessness and institutional racism in Alameda County through 18 interviews with homeless families, young people, advocates, poets and policymakers.
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