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My Big Fat Homeless Berkeley Movie
52 minutes | 17 or older | 2006 | 
United States of America
A warm, infectious look at street life in Berkeley, CA., USA through the eyes of homeless filmmaker Johnny Allen Shaw. Sometimes it's zany, other times it's poigniant. It's always passionate and sponteneous.
Synopsis""My Big Fat Homeless Berkeley Movie" is a bizarre sort of triumph — at times very funny, and brutally sad, but never didactic or preachy. Shaw never appears or speaks in the film, which wanders plotlessly through eighteen vérité vignettes depicting individual lives on the street. Embracing the gonzo ethic of "shoot first and call what you hit the target," Shaw's documentary is cultural anthropology in the raw, capturing the exotic people, customs, and ideas of a subculture that hides in plain sight." ---East Bay Express
Here, you'll meet Matthew Silver, explosive street theater technician, Allen "Scotty" Lange, immigrant and mental divergent, Mitch Mitchner, dedicated wingnut and couldn't be happier, Frank Chu of the 12 Galaxies conspiracy coverage and Patrick Lancelin's version of the Julia Butterfly Hill story.
Director's StatementThe only movies I've seen about homelessness have been emotional downers or somewhat out of touch. I wanted to show the beauty and depth of life on the streets and to show homeless people that were fine on their own.
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Directed by
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Written by
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Produced by
Johnny Allen Shaw - My Big Fat Homeless Berkeley Movie Website
Written by: Johnny Allen Shaw
Produced by: Johnny Allen Shaw
Cast
: Josey Parrish: Matthew Silver
: Planet
: Frank Chu
: Harold
: Alan
: Mitch Mitchner
: Screwy Lewie
: Patrick Zobo
: Pink Cloud
: Robert Enkenswa Nwenge
: Julian Walker
Crew
: Johnny Allen ShawFilmed, edited and manufactured with no job, home or money, outdoors using pirated resources and dodging the authorities. This movie was made because I had no other choice of what to do in life and the virtual inventory aspect made it possible.
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Director
Johnny Allen Shaw
