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Program Overview
According to homeless people and experts alike, St. Petersburg, Florida is one of the best places to be if you're homeless. In Easy Street, two resident filmmakers spend a year documenting the daily existence of homeless
people throughout the city.
Come face to face with St. Petersburg’s chronically homeless in this gritty,
provoking documentary. From a ride in the back of a pickup truck on the way to a
cold night shelter, to homeless squatters camped out in a vacant home for sale, experience for yourself how people exist without a roof over their head and find out why they do it.
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Film Makers
Stephen Ashton
Oringially from Canada, Ashton braved the winters of Saskatchewan in the 70’s, got lost in Europe and taught English on the island of Crete in the 1980’s, and wrote and produced for Candian network TV until 1992, when he chucked it all and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.
Andrew Lee
A graduate of the University of South Florida, and has worked at editing and producing film and video for the past 3 years. In 2004, Lee worked with Director/ Producer Stephen Ashton on a series of short documentaries funded by the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, profiling artists living and working in Florida.
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Moderators
02/10/07
Monique Fields will facilitate a discussion after the film. Monique is a lecturer of community journalism and coordinator of the Neighborhood News Bureau at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. She is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering education, whose articles have appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser, Fayetteville Observer-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Tennessean, and the St. Petersburg Times. In addition, she has been a guest lecturer at high school journalism workshops at the University of Alabama, Tennessee State University and the Poynter Institute. She is currently working on a book about black families and depression and resides with her husband in St. Petersburg, Florida.
02/17/07
Sarah K. Snyder is the
Executive Director for the Pinellas County Coalition for
the Homeless, and staff director for the Homeless Leadership
Network. The Network is the group of elected officials
from Pinellas County, five cities including St. Petersburg,
the School Board, and other business, housing, faith-based,
and service provider leaders in the county charged with
oversight of the implementation of the 10-Year Plan to
End Homelessness. The Coalition has been coordinating homeless
services for over 20 years, and has been instrumental in
increasing the number and scope of homeless services in
the county. Ms. Snyder formerly was the President of the
Pinellas Private Industry Council, the national award-winning
predecessor to the current WorkNet Pinellas workforce development
organization. She has been a resident of Pinellas County
for over 30 years, and has seen the face of homelessness
change over the years.
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Program Date & Time
02/10/07
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
02/17/07
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
02/24/07
7:00 pm
Admission
$5
Call for reserved seating.
30% of the proceeds are donated to an
organization for the homeless.
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