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Video copies of Taylor's Campaign are available from Richard Cohen Films. Information at the end of message.

Taylor's Campaign (75 minutes) Director and Editor: Richard Cohen Producers: Amy Kofman and Richard Cohen Narrated by Martin Sheen

Taylor's Campaign is a verite documentary about unforgettable hardworking people living in cardboard lean-tos in luxurious Santa Monica, California. They survive by dumpster diving and by finding joy and safety together.

When new laws threaten their freedom and existence, a penniless trucker, Ron Taylor, runs for Santa Monica city council as a voice of protest.

Comments:

"Infuses the tragedy of homelessness with both humor and empathy. The film pulls viewers into the situation of the homeless, making us feel what it is like to be second-class citizens."

--Holly Payne, Release Print magazine

"A rare opportunity to transform one's perceptions and by extension, our society."

-- Michael Fox, San Francisco Weekly

"Excellent...cuts right to the heart of the plight of the homeless." --Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"Lively, compassionate...illuminating"

--David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor

"Amid the vernacular of street life, all the complexities surrounding homelessness emerge, often delivered with poignant and heartbreaking subtlety. ...The film offers rare glimipses into daily activities that are absolutely familiar, yet when shown in the context of street living, become much more potent. Cooking beans and rice, sweeping a dirty run, making a bed -- these images all reflect the common desires and activities in which humans engage in the places we call home."

-- Matthew Lesing, Synapse (UCSF Medical School)

"A thoughtful, rounded look at a subject that won't go away no matter how hard we try to ignore it."

--Renee Downing, Arizona Daily Star

"Extremely compelling...a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers. This film illustrates several dimensions of homelessness in contemporary U.S. cities; it documents the everyday lives and routines of homeless persons, it illustrates the interaction between homeless persons, businesses, and social control agents (such as the police), and it provides critique from various perspectives of the ways that local government responds to the regional issue of homelessness."

--Lois M. Takahashi,

Prof. Urban and Regional Planning UC Irvine,

author "Homelessness, Aids and Stigmatization"

"Remarkable documentary.... Comparisons with 'Grapes of Wrath' are well deserved." -- Kelly Vance, Express(Berkeley,Oakland)

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Taylor's Campaign is a production of Raindog Films in association with Film Arts Foundation of San Francisco. Distributed by Richard Cohen Films in association with Film Arts Foundation rbc23@juno.com (310)395-3549 Po Box 1012, Venice CA 90291