Something You Can Call Home

WINTER FILM AWARDS 2015 NOMINEE - SOCIALLY RELEVANT FILM, NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY

• 2014

• United Kingdom, United States

• 74 mins

• Documentary Film Competition

For some, the coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, is a tourist playground. Beneath the surface however, the face of homelessness is changing rapidly. Former business owner Vince has slept under a stairwell in a parking garage for the past year. Currently sober, he’s determined to turn his life around. Having aged out of foster care, student and female impersonator Jerome now lives under a bridge. Melody is an educated ex-Marine, who lost her local government job and fights imminent foreclosure, in desperation, she considers sending away her two sons. Karen and feisty daughter Chemaiyah escaped domestic violence to move between church shelters each week, swallowing pride when feeling belittled by well-intentioned volunteers. Some make the transition; others fall deeper through the cracks. With touches of dark humor and an intimate, honest style, Something You Can Call Home explores what’s essential for physical and emotional survival.

Something You Can Call Home has so far been entirely self-funded, sustained by Rebecca living a somewhat unsettled, nomadic lifestyle for the past two years, and by in-kind support from friends, family and her Cucalorus Film Festival artist’s residency. If you would like to support our film, please click here to donate through our fiscal sponsor, Southern Documentary Fund.

Please be in touch if you are interested in hosting your own community screening of the film later in the year – screening kits and curriculum will be available shortly. Donations are also welcome in order to continue this work.