The Faces of Poverty

Produced, Written and Directed by Gerard Thomas Straub
Co-Produced and Edited by Chad O. Mochrie
Consulting Producer: Lauren Speeth, Elfenworks Foundation

We talk about the "poor" but we hardly ever meet any poor people. In The Faces of Poverty you will meet actual poor people, learn their names, hear their tragic stories, see their sorrowful faces. You will see innocent children without homes, a neglected grandmother living in a mission, a young mother who lives in her car with her children, a homeless man living in an abandoned building and a homeless veteran with no legs.

Also, in this jam-packed 45 minutes, you will meet unemployed auto workers, recovering addicts, homeless women, and others who are unjustly imprisoned by chronic poverty, living in isolated pockets of despair and want. Featuring scenes from three feature-length documentaries on domestic poverty in Philadelphia, Detroit and Los Angeles, as well as new, never-before-seen material, The Faces of Poverty weaves a number of heartbreaking stories into a compelling portrait of poverty in America, where so many live in suffocating squalor in the shadow of astounding affluence. The Faces of Poverty hopes to inspire viewers to work to end the injustice of poverty - because everyone can do something.