Filmmaker Statement

Every resident of Los Angeles, or any big city for that matter, is familiar with the homelessness crisis. We all have our dinner party talking points in which we forcefully and eloquently articulate our own deep sense of sympathies for the plight of the homeless. The truth, however, whether we like to admit it or not, is that the ways in which most of us interact with the homeless seldom reflect those firmly held convictions of sadness for their situations. The undeniable reality is the way we act toward the homeless often runs opposite of our professed care for them. The truth is that most of us feel fear, apathy, disgust, and sometimes even hatred toward the homeless. There is, then, a highly erected wall of separation between our intellectual, abstract care for the plight of the homeless population in this city and the ways in which we actually interact with that population in our daily lives. This dichotomy is something far too few of us care to examine. Red Line does just that.