Direction Home, a documentary film by Hilary Silver

Date de début: 

10 Mars 2016 - 18:30

Type d'événement: 

  • Ciné-club, projections

Publié ici : 

08 Mars 2016

Mis à jour le : 

06 Septembre 2017

Mots-clefs: 

  • sans-abris
  • sdf
  • Rhode Island

Zone géographique: 

  • Asie
CSH (Inde)

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http://www.csh-delhi.com/eventdetail/101/129%7C130%7C131%7C132%7C139%7C142/screening-of-direction-home-a-documentary-film-by-hilary-silver

Alliance Française de Delhi - Ciné Club in collaboration with Centre for Social Science and Humanities, Embassy of France presents Direction Home

DIRECTION HOME chronicles the lives of seven homeless individuals over seven years after the state of Rhode Island demolished the emergency shelter where they regularly slept.  Through the Great Recession and its aftermath, the physical and psychic toll of insecurity and displacement is reflected in the characters' faces as they form and sever relationships and confront disabilities.  Service providers explain their policies as their approach shifts from a Continuum of Care towards a Housing First model.  Meanwhile, over the years, activists protest shelter conditions and police mistreatment.  They organize tent cities, demand a day shelter, win a Homeless Bill of Rights, and devise a plan to end homelessness entirely.  The film ends when all of the characters are settled in a stable home, demonstrating the greater effectiveness and lower cost of providing housing first.

This film was directed and produced by Hilary Silver, a professor of sociology, urban studies, and public policy at Brown University in Providence, RI.  It was made with several undergraduate students on a shoestring budget of small grants from the university and the National Endowment and RI Council for the Humanities.  It is currently airing on RI Public Television.

Followed by a conference based on the topic of homelessness in India

Moderator:

Ashwin Parulkar, Centre for Policy Research

Panelists:

Harsh Mander, Centre for Equity Studies

Dr. Kishore Kumar, The Banyan

Dr. Jaisingh Rathore, Institute of Development Studies - Jaipur

Tarique Mohammad, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Koshish

The India Homeless Resource Network is a collaboration between Centre for Equity Studies, Centre for Policy Research, The Banyan Academy of Leadership on Mental Health, Institute of Development Studies in Jaipur, Koshish and Tata Institute of Social Sciences on research on urban homelessness in India.  Beginning in April 2016, the network will curate research, policy analysis  and documentation throughout the country on a website that will serve as a knowledge hub on issues critical to social policies concerning homelessness:  physical health burdens and access to health care, work conditions in the urban informal labour economy, violence and insecurity faced by homeless women, psychosocial and mental health burdens, legal reform and policing, national shelter policy and street children & homeless youth.  The network envisions knowledge on these areas informing responses of and coordination between organizations and local officials working on the ground.  The goal of the network is to generate solutions amongst researchers, policymakers and the general public on homelessness in the context of increasing urbanization and higher shares of economic growth accruing to the nation’s cities.

Thursday, 10th March 2016, 6:30pm

M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi

72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi – 110003

 

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