Country: USA
Year: 1997
Duration: 200'
A day at the Ida B. Wells Center in Chicago, which houses thousands of homeless people. The film documents the work of the center's employees, life on the streets, the role the police play, programs to fight unemployment, information about drug abuse, unwed mothers, broken families, elderly guests, the nursing school and after-school activities for youngsters. Attention is also paid to public financing - local and federal - which supports the center's activities.
Cast
& Credits
Director: Frederick Wiseman.
Director of photography: John Davey.
Editor: Frederick Wiseman.
Production company: Frederick Wiseman per Housing Films.
Foreign sales agent: Zipporah Films, One Richdale Avenue, Unit #4, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140 USA, tel. +1-617-5763603, fax +1-6178648006, e-mail info@zipporah.com.
Director of photography: John Davey.
Editor: Frederick Wiseman.
Production company: Frederick Wiseman per Housing Films.
Foreign sales agent: Zipporah Films, One Richdale Avenue, Unit #4, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140 USA, tel. +1-617-5763603, fax +1-6178648006, e-mail info@zipporah.com.