*Video* My Homelessness Documentary Final Shot: Open Drug Use at Brand New Shelter in Minneapolis

The ending of my documentary about a Minneapolis tent city (premiering May 19) features footage of the Navigation Shelter, built specifically to house those who'd been at "The Wall" homeless camp last fall.

In trying to keep as current as possible, today I captured this footage of life outside the shelter (only residents and staff are allowed inside). Outside the shelter is open drug use & dealing, trash such as used needles, and sleeping bags and tents forming a "street-life suburb" of this shelter.

If this documentary can promote any one thing to stem homelessness, it would be more drug treatment (or even enforcement of current laws for proceedings in drug court). Otherwise, this stretch of sidewalk may be just a preview of what's to come this summer, particularly when the Navigation Shelter closes at the end of the month.

By the way, I got a second screening secured! It'll be Monday evening June 3 at the same theater in Minneapolis. More details will be posted on the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/273108236898104/

With less than two weeks to go 'til the premiere, we're putting on the finishing touches!

-Brandon