about the shelter movie
How can design address the world’s most critical issues?
Eight years after the tsunami in Indonesia destroyed 100,000 homes, the nation is still recovering. Two years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake left 1.5 million Haitians homelsss, more than a third of the population - half a million people – still lives in tents in emergency camps. Fortunately, humanitarian designers are working to rebuild lives, livelihoods and homes by empowering homeowners, educating builders, and working with communities most in need.
Shelter is a feature-length documentary telling the story of the socially-responsible design movement being led by organizations like Architecture for Humanity, which taps a network of more than 50,000 professionals to create structures that directly benefit 25,000 people each year in Haiti, Latin America, Africa and the US, and Build Change, which has built safer homes for 70,000 people in China and Indonesia. Shelter highlights the role of designers, architects and engineers who are part of a growing movement to make the world a better place using humanitarian design. By telling their stories, we hope to inspire others to design for good.
Shelter: connect is the outreach initiative of the Shelter film. It presents college and university students with the chance to get real-world design experience and become inspired to make positive change in the world using design. It empowers them to help transform communities most in need so that the engine of design can be mobilized to solve the major environmental and shelter issues of the world. Click to learn more about Shelter: connect.
The Shelter mission.
· Inspire undergraduate and graduate students to become involved in public interest architecture and design
· Include Shelter in their curriculum, architecture, design, and engineering professors may influence the conversation about ‘design for good’
· Teach the general public about the value of public interest architecture will effect the movement as a whole by inspiring people to donate or become involved with organizations like Public Architecture, Architecture for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity, and Build Change.
Broadcast and Distribution.
· film.sprout is our consultant for booking the film, our workshops and broadening the social impact of Shelter.
Current Status.
Shelter is in production – the first part of our Haiti production days are complete. We are planning the remaining filming days from late February 2012 until mid June 2012. We anticipate extensively showcasing Shelter in festivals. We will also pursue broadcast on PBS, HBO, Showtime, and other television networks. Our vision for theatrical release centers around fundraising events in theaters designed to raise completion funds and promote DVD sales through a distributor.
Click to learn more about the Shelter production team.
