A Screening of Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness

About the Film

The team at A Bigger Vision Films noticed that most documentaries on homelessness offer few solutions, so they set out to create BEYOND THE BRIDGE, an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film crew drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and dozens of service providers, those with lived experience and policy makers to answer this question: How can this country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?

The answer: Working with deep coordination — a single homelessness response systems plan based on the principles of Housing First with community buy-in from law enforcement, judicial systems, business communities, service providers, volunteers, and city & county leadership, all working from the same page.

About the Campaign

Throughout 2024 and 2025, the Beyond the Bridge team is traveling nationwide on a 30-city screening tour, with the goal of changing the national discourse on solutions to homelessness. Each screening event will include post-screening panels and Q&As, calls- to-action and follow-up activities for audience members, and the opportunity for community members to discuss, together, how they can begin addressing homelessness in their local communities. Ultimately, the goals of the campaign are to:

1. Change the narrative about people experiencing homelessness and solutions to the housing crisis

2. Inspire communities to develop a unified approach based on Housing First throughout their homelessness and supported housing service system

3. Expand public involvement on the issue of homelessness

4. Build unity among homelessness advocates

About the Event

How can our community solve homelessness in a comprehensive way? Join us for a screening of Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness and the opportunity to experience a restorative, relational approach to addressing this issue, featuring a guest panel from diverse experience and expertise, aimed at working TOGETHER toward a solution tailored to Eau Claire.

This community event is generously sponsored by the Eau Claire Community Foundation, Home for Good of Eau Claire, the Pablo Foundation, Pablo Center at the Confluence, and the Center for Racial & Restorative Justice at UWEC.