You might feel a sense of shame watching Rotimi Rainwater’s “Lost in America,” an expansive documentary look at the issue of youth homelessness in a country where the problem seems unthinkable, and its victims are so often invisible. You are likely to ask yourself how many times you have passed by a homeless child and did not quite see them. The statistics are scary: According to a recent study, nearly 4.2 million kids live out on the streets due to heartbreaking reasons which Rainwater examines in his caring film, chronicling his six-year journey across 15 cities to grasp the breadth of the epidemic. One thing will be certain after tagging along that trip with him: Your eyesight will never skip over the homeless youth again.
That is mostly thanks to Rainwater’s approachable prose — not a feat of filmmaking perhaps, but an absorbing act of compassion nevertheless. As a person who...
That is mostly thanks to Rainwater’s approachable prose — not a feat of filmmaking perhaps, but an absorbing act of compassion nevertheless. As a person who...
- 2/28/2020
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Miley Cyrus has joined Russell Simmons as an executive producer of the upcoming documentary about homeless youth called Lost in America. She will also appear in the Rotimi Rainwater film alongside Halle Berry, Rosario Dawson, Jewel, Jon Bon Jovi, Sanaa Lathan, and Rebecca Gayheart-Dane. The film was directed by Rainwater, who himself was a former homeless youth. Rainwater told Deadline, “I never thought in my wildest dreams that we would get this many people to…...
- 10/25/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: The homeless in America — 2 million of them are children. Now entertainment mogul Russell Simmons, Jon Bon Jovi and U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy are helping to shine a light on it through a new documentary called Lost In America. The film is directed by Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth who spent three years traveling around the nation culling together stories from street kids who spoke to him in unbridled honesty. Simmons is the executive producer on Lost In…...
- 1/27/2017
- Deadline
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