HUUUUGE DAY

We're excited to bring you some huge news on what we accomplished today. This morning we met with the Director of Community Development for the Miami Rescue Mission, Marilyn Brummitt. This Non-profit feeds, houses, clothes, and provides a program for over 300 people daily. What we are going to do is go through a 3 day intake program (within the next week or two) undercover with these homeless people in the men's facility to really get the feel for what goes on there without our cameras. Through this, we hope to get a better feel for what some of these people go through on a daily basis all while taking notes, meeting the homeless, and after the program, getting interviews on camera.

That's not the big news, the biggest part is the willingness and passion of these people to help us through helping them...not only are we going to have a place to stay, we have a place to keep all of our equipment safe, we have a place to keep our car parked instead of sleeping in it/driving around in it, we are also going to be able, if we choose, to get meals from the shelter. What has been extended to us will be a more authentic experience and it affords us the opportunity to meet many homeless people from different walks and get them on film if they so choose.

What we saw today in that shelter was awesome and breath-taking...the Miami Rescue Mission does incredible work at getting homeless people off of drugs, out of gangs, sleeping on the street, and gives them a second chance that is almost too good to be true. Surprisingly to us, 30% of the staff at the Mission has gone through the program and they really show a dedication to getting people out of the mess they were once in.

Through Marilyn, we met a 60 year old man named Carlos who has been in the film industry his whole life. Being unfulfilled by a money oriented life and also being in a bad spot, he turned to the Mission. He went through the program and not 2 years removed from it, he has his own studio in the building where he edits and produces all of the films (which he also shoots) and videos that the Miami Rescue Mission puts out which are incredible. He's going to be a vital asset to our cause because he lived the homeless life without much more than the shirt on his back and now is an awesome success story.

We also met a young man named Joseph Warnell who gave us a tour of just some of the shelter facilities including the education facility, dorms, chapel, medical building, and cafeteria. What was awesome about Joseph was his passion, with an unrivaled ferocity, to be a living, breathing example of a second chance. Joseph confided in us that he was a drug user living in the streets and had a pretty troubled past. Now he is in the program and working his way up to graduation and is excited to give us his testimony on camera. Can't wait for you guys to meet him.

We wish we could express through this blog what we witnessed and will be witnessing over the next few weeks there...it is as moving as it is fascinating as it is genuine. We promise you what we will be filming will be worth your while and we hope to be posting some videos in the near future.

I hope through what you'll see we can help raise awareness and change the perception of what a vast majority think the homeless culture entails. We learned today that millionaires, children of politicians, and people you'd never expect in a homeless shelter end up there because they literally have nowhere to turn to when times are tougher than they can handle.

On a side note, last night where we slept...we saw many tents set-up and cars parked along the bay beach off of the highway and thought people camped there. We found out through the Mission that it was the homeless sex offender community. Oh well, we're safe and had one of the most killer views of Miami we've ever seen, you'll have to wait and see.

Again, we can't express how awesome some things are just lining up for us with this project, we have many goals concerning it and we hope to achieve them but we can't do it without your help. Get your friends to follow us too, one of our goals is to have 10,000 followers on our facebook page so everyone please invite your friends.

We'll have some more big news and hopefully some video soon within the near future. For now, take care guys, and keep following!