Crushing Wheelchairs Conversation with Director & Cast

Starring the talents of POOR Magazine—the prominent California arts & activism collective—the production includes a cast of only houseless or formerly houseless and disabled actors who have been participants in a series of theatre and writing workshops led by formerly houseless screenwriter, povertyskola, author and poet Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia aka @povertyskola. Cast aside by society like trash, a group of poor people living in a homeless community struggle to find hope amid gentrification, domestic violence and the brutality of the State.  This eye-opening film incorporates magical realism, poetry, and myth in the stories of each of the characters, and culminates in violent tragedy and hope rooted in decolonial self-determination. CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS is a boundary breaking movie that examines the causes and harsh realities of homelessness, told directly from the people who struggle against it everyday but who rarely (if ever) are the ones in front of or behind the camera. Each screening of the movie includes Indigenous and all nations prayer for ancestors of homelessness, police terror and sweeps.