LavaMaeˣ is featured in Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary Lead Me Home

February 8, 2021

LavaMaeˣ is on Netflix!

We're honored to be featured in Lead Me Home—a 40-min documentary filmed over three years in three cities that face seemingly intractable circumstances involving large populations of people experiencing homelessness.

Lead Me Home is now one of five incredible films nominated for Best Documentary, Short at the 94th Academy Awards.

About Lead Me Home

Lead Me Home is a short film that follows several people living on the streets in West Coast cities. Conceived to be a cinematic study of contrasts, the film will be familiar and shocking; intimate and vast. By weaving individual stories with aerial vistas, time-lapse photography, and evocative details of contemporary urban life, Lead Me Home aims to spark a national conversation about the epic scale of this alarming and ever-growing problem.

Shot over the course of three years in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, this short presents the epidemic of homelessness in America with a show-don't-tell approach, featuring candid testimonials from those who rest their heads in shelters, tent cities, and anywhere a night's sleep can be found. A poetic and dignified portrait of our culture's fraying edges and the people who inhabit them, Lead Me Home is filled with bracing humanity.