Labels: Lives Behind the Labels. Homelessness in Northern California (Full Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Here is the final, full cut of LABELS: LIVES BEHIND THE LABELS. Written and directed by Emmy Award-winning Butte County documentary filmmaker Christopher Allan Smith ( / rocketspots ) and executive produced by Butte County artist Christine MacShane and Northstate radio personality Dori Moura (Deer Creek Broadcasting) LABELS began as a film telling the story of some local Northsataters and their homeless experience through the art they produced. But as production went on, it became clear that what separated those with and without safe housing often was little more than the labels we use.
LABELS was part of an arts/film exhibit at the Museum of Northern California Art (@moncamuseum/) starting in March of 2024, before being premiering on PBS's KIXE in December 2024 and running several more times throughout 2025.
LABELS and the accompanying art show as has been funded by the California Arts Council.
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Beautiful. This should be broadcast on PBS Nationwide. Amazing documentary. Thank you for giving a voice to the Souls in this presentation and giving people watching from the comfort of a house a first hand account of just how hard it is on every person without a fixed abode. You’re doing a great service and you’re a very talented documentarian. Bless you and yours and please keep making documentaries.
This documentary makes me emotional everytime I watch it. Im so grateful that I was apart of this documentary & I want to do more documentaries. Thank u for the opportunity to be apart of such amazing documentary
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@@kristinstopnick502 Thank you for humanizing this crisis!!! Thank you for your perseverance!! I hope that maybe you can help our community leaders make decisions that lead to solutions. I’m certain you have some great ideas!! We need leaders that listen!! We need to house people close to the resources that they need. We need a mobile homeless unit of professionals to meet with people one on one. It takes a village. There is no magic easy answer. It takes professionals with integrity to create solutions.
I could tell from the start I was going to be moved. Homelessness is something I am close to, been through, and aspire to do something to help end the suffering that should not exist in the wealthiest country in the world. "Unconditional Housing" or "Housing First", are the only proven programs to end so many problems. When people have secure places to live, they work out their other problems on their own. Mental illness and drug addiction can't be overcome without a home. A home is the foundation of life. It's a sense of belonging and knowing you have a place to sleep, eat and keep your belongings safe. A place to raise your family and cook your meals. We need Housing and we need Housing now.
@ AMEN!!! Let’s do it!! How do we get the attention of people in “responsibility” to watch this and use prop 1 funds to do it!! No more excuses!!!
Ur definitely right about that but who is going to pay the rent for them to be in a house renting a room or their own apartment they are going to have to pay the rent & whatever bills like electricity etc so they are other things that need to be in place 1st. So to solve that issue there needs to be more low barrier shelters that will help people to begin the steps to living not as some one who is homeless. So of them cant work a normal job so they need to apply for ssi. Every single person who is out there homeless & trust me there is all age groups who are going to transition from homelessness to being a member of the community again differently & even though they were always part of the community even when they are homeless. They have to learn how to pay bills 1st before they go blow it on drugs cause some do. Some of the homeless think its everyone else's job to get them off the streets pay their bills & feed them cause they were homeless & that absolutely not how it goes. You can't Just put somebody homeless into a house and expect them to pay the bills. Are you going to pay their rent? Or are you going to pay their water bill, their electric bill, their TV bill, all that stuff. No, somebody has a paid and it aint the community's job. It's not your job, it's not my job, it's not anybody's job. When I was homeless for 5 years in Chico, you'll see in that in this documentary, obviously I had to get a job and like I know it's not the community's job. These people are so ungrateful when somebody feeds them a sandwich, and that's so wrong. So that's what's wrong with some of these homeles people they feel like, because they're homeless. It's your guys' job to house them and pay their rent and that's not it, so before they can move into a house, they got to learn how to live. Not as a homeless person, they can't keep blaming people. It's a lot of different traumas for people, so everybody's different. There's never going to be a cure for homelessness, I'm sorry to burst everybody's bubble. But it's only going to get worse. It could get better. It could get clamimed down but at the end of the day. It's not a stopping. It's just not gonna be a thing. Our kids are going to be know what homelessness is whereas my generation didn't, we never saw homeless people I never thought I was going to be homeless nobody does, but now now you can wake up and it could be a split, second, you know, I mean, thank God all those people in the Palisades. They got millions of dollars to rebuild their home, but there's people still from the camp fire That are still struggling right now, staying in the tourist shelter or they're just now getting their money from the fire, but being told that they can't build because the water's contaminated. I mean, I don't feel sorry for nobody in the Palisades, because they've got multi-million. Dollars of money and they're not stayed in the shelter and they sure the hell arent sleeping on the streets like these people are up here. You know what I mean? So they should be thankful for the money that they have and the silver spoon they ever fed with like Paris Hilton losing her house big deal, she has 20 more ant hotels? You know what I mean, every place is different. And all this is a thing, and people just need to get used. So you're going to see somebody out there, homeless in your community, and oh my God, you're so shamed of it. Well, don't be so judgemental because it might be somebody in your family, it could be, u urself You can wake up in 1 day today. And just nobody ever knows nowadays that's the problem. And you can't assume that we're all the same. Every individual is different. We just share one thing in common, the experience of homelessness.differentlmmmstart @GrandmaBev64
This came out so fabulous! It's a fresh representation of a growing issue... Homelessness as a physiological condition. Maybe we will see policy change that prescribes safe and affordable housing. Thank you to everyone who worked to make this possible ❤️
Ur welcome
This was a well produced documentary giving individuals their point of view and how they ended up unhoused. Living in CA is challenging and any one of us can lose the roof over our head.
Thank you to those willing to put a face to this sad circumstances!! I hope this humanizes the situation that soo many are just a step away from!!
Ur very welcome
Thank you for your video. It should be widely available for people to see. As someone who has also experienced homelessness (but thankfully, off the streets) multiple times I understand the trauma, the shame, the humiliation at work, the prejudice of feeling "less than" and unseen. My brother was homeless in Chico, and I helped him as I was able, but he ended up moving to Ohio, where he finally received Veteran's benefits and case management that he needed, and is now housed. It's good to see a video that addresses the reality of the problem, and the human consequences.
Thank u for this beautiful piece of humanity and soul What beautiful people They have angels watching them
Thank u for ur kind words I really appreciate that
Thank you for this documentary!!! I’m always one step away from this. I’m extremely grateful for my family support and without them, I would be. My heart always breaks for the homeless. I help when and where I can. I regularly support our local Salvation Army. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be without their loving support. The city should never have put a camp so far away from resources.
Salvation army are scam artists they ran the shelter in Santa Cruz spend all the homeless money real fast with no results no permanent housing housing first replaced them they charged 10 dollars a meal for each person 2 times a day there are 200 people three then renting showers 😢😢
I left California because I was one step away from the street with my 2 year old at the time. Many years later I took the Amtrak to Sacramento to visit family and the homeless camps I saw along the tracks into Sacramento was devastating. to see the piles of trash 8 feet high...babies in diapers small kids mothers tents . I cried. This is an accurate sobering look at why and most of all, who these people are. It could be you. It happened to me. My daughter lost her home in the camp fire. She lived in magalia.
It's not just in California.
Cherish the resources that you have and appreciate family. My takeaway from almost being homeless is the people you surround yourself with can be a safety net.
Time Tax and Proximity Tax - thanks for talking about this. It is not as simple as "get a job!!"....once you're homeless your biggest challenge is the Tax time, not to mention a place to sleep and get clean to just go get a job, or the electricity for a phone/internet (if even have have that) to follow up (proximity). ALL those luxuries are gone.
I promise there maybe a handful of homeless people who have jobs & are thinking about taxes. Everyone else is trying to service & for most that mean getting their next fix if whatever they are addicted to. There are also homelss people who don't do drugs despite everyone saying different I know a few & i admire the fact they never give in & did drugs to say awake or for whatever reason. They pushed through sober being around the drug life for the 1st time & not trying any that's the awesomeness thing to see.
My daughter and I are campfire survivors we experienced homelessness for a short time after the fire, luckily we had a good support system. I liked the way you explained it in your documentary. Without one of the support system components we could’ve ended up on the streets. I carry that trauma, always worried that it can happen to me. My daughter and I actually our profiled in a documentary called, “The last days at Paradise high school” it is also on You Tube. As she was a senior Paradise high school at the time of the fire.
Well said 😊 I was homeless for years. I understand what it is like 😊 I now live in my RV on a farm. Peace and love people, don't forget Jesus 😊
My family has is well off and growing up has been great. But I've seen this land and the state I love go too hell. Pray for California and its people. Even me and my left the land I love because Of crime and homeless people.
Sad world.
Nortic countries including Finland has solved their homeless challenges. Butte county should research programs that are working all over the world. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel here. Just learn and implement.
What most people take for granted homeless people are desperately in need of. If it happened to you, you would suddenly understand...
Unfortunately, with the community loosing the Bidwell mansion, locals have closed their hearts even more towards this challenge of homelessness. Personally, I feel like there should have been someone guarding and protecting it 24/7!!!!
Ok but that has nothing to do with what this documentary is about.
@ Actually, it does. Only because true or not, and I’m not saying it is true, fingers are being pointed. This is why when someone says something to me about it, I point the responsibility to it not being secured as it should have been.
@ It does because the loss has changed the communities compassion towards the unhoused even more. Which is why this documentary coming out now is sooo important!!
@ It only takes one person to not pick up after themselves for example to ruin it for everyone else. A very small example is having everything locked up, dressing rooms gone, etc.
#hope
I have heard that people are being told to come to Chico if their homeless. Personally, I feel like people who have been here in Butte county before the fire should have priority in assistance.
I hope you don’t mean that people who arrived in Chico after the fire because they were displaced from Paradise should not be included in that priority.
@ No, I’m including all of Butte County.
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Calif spent 3.3 Billion on 187,000 homeless.
If they fix the problem, people lose their jobs. It's BIG business. And fixing it, means losing the funding.
Your Governor was given 23 BILLION dollars for homeless people. I could fix homelessness with 10 billion for all of America 🇺🇸
He lies, no such 23B going to homeless program, most ends up in his cronies' and his pockets
Yes, unfortunately that has resulted in more arrests than anything else. From what I’ve heard, in BC you eat better homeless than in this jail. 2 baloney sandwiches for breakfast and lunch is close to starvation. The $ for the homeless should have gone to programs that have been successful. Unfortunately, it was never allocated that way.
Everyone focuses on the wrong things. More resources need to be spent on rehabilitating people
@@hyper4mer127 Yes, starting with housing. Having housing alone releases much stress. This makes resources easier to come to them and the time tax, if they can be housed near resources. Behavioral health should have a mobile unit and it should be paid for by prop 1!!!
Prove it then. If u think u can can seriously take 10 million & solve the homeless issue do cause u would like a hero to the world cause unsolved the issue of being homelss. So if u think u can prove it, I don't thnk u can or would even know where to began. Actions speak louder then ur words.
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I would help everyone if I could. WTH are the billionaires??????? Oh, that's right - counting their money.
American greed got us to this point. It’ll only get worse💁🏾♀️🙏🏾
Really starting to hate this term " challenges" it a downplay to the suffering; oppression;tyranny; Trauma people experience with pain sorrow and despair. This term challenges is not appropriate; it is insulting
I hear what you're saying. This situation is painful and full of sorrow. I would suggest maybe not assuming what people in these situations find 'insulting' and listen to what actually hurts them.
Having talked directly to the subjects of this film, gotten to know them, and kept in touch, I myself lose patience with those not currently dealing with their problems editing and criticizing the words and ways they use to express themselves and their experiences. From my experience talking with Mark, Debra, Cecelia, Kristen and everyone else in this film, I believe it would be better to talk to them on a human level rather than assuming what does and doesn't insult them from our more comfortable vantage points. None of the subjects in this film minced words or took offense to things like words.
A big example: as I began this project, I was told by several self-styled homeless advocates not to use the word homelessness and use 'living without a home' or 'unhoused.' As you can see, especially with Katrina in this, every subject used the word homeless. Word policing and online "outrage" doesn't solve the problems or change the views people commenting on boards like these seem to think.
I hear what you're saying and I understand the frustration, but online word games that actually minimized the language people living homeless use to describe their lives is not a path I'm going to follow you on.
Thank gosh for gated communities and HOA'S. Btw, not everyone will end up in homelessness, that's where assets come into place.
My family has is well off and growing up has been great. But I've seen this land and the state I love go too hell. Pray for California and its people. Even me and my left the land I love because Of crime and homeless people.
Smoke weed